Word: interplays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motif of the show is the easy interplay between man and beast, myth and daily life. The winged bulls and lions on vases and breastplates represent totemic alliances by which ancient man sought to acquire the power of the strongest beasts to fend off the evil forces around him. But in their arresting regality, these beasts bear themselves like demigods, not mere-animals...
Like his characters, Kubrick's plot is simple--but only superficially. Actually it operates on two levels simultaneously, one hilariously fanciful, the other disturbingly realistic. It is this interplay, more than the actual tension of the story-line, that enervates the constantly laughing audiences. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a right-wing general, is convinced that the Russians are surreptitiously "sapping our bodily fluids" by flouridating drinking water. Concerned for America's "virility," Ripper orders a surprise nuclear attack on the USSR. Action alternates between the Washington War Room, where a liberal, weak-kneed President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) tries...
...auto business, though still dominated by the U.S., has become so internationalized that there is an increasing interplay between markets. Hoping to gain both profit and prestige from the exchange, a U.S. automaker last week decided to sell one of its European-made cars in the U.S., while another U.S. company announced that it will build a car in England to race on the Continent...
...painting never shown before in the U.S. This year's choice is one of the great treasures of the Staatliche Museen in West Berlin: Albrecht Altdorfer's The Adoration of the Shepherds. Painted between 1518 and 1520, it is one of the finest specimens of the brilliant interplay of night and light at which this late-Renaissance German excelled. Through...
Wesker's chip is on his shoulder, and in heavier hands his play might have been doctrinaire agitprop-wash. It escapes that dreary fate, thanks to the playwright's good humor, dramatic interplay and irony, together with Director John Dexter's drillmasterly pacing. It is, in its own lingo, a scorching fine evening of theater...