Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot from the author and make up their own lines, the numerous scenes follow no understandable pattern. But the brutal early scenes have given the characters meaning, and the brief powerful finish generates emotion in the audience. What Anouilh has done is to create a loose play and still jolt the spectators. In short, he plays with the audience. The author-actor states early in the play that "I have always thought we should make the audience and critics rehearse, too." The "Cavern" may refer to the whole theater, as well as to the kitchen where the servants dwell...
...With one jolt from his cigarette lighter-ray gun, James Coburn became the roguish superspy in Our Man Flint. Zap! Zap! And the near-impossible switch from heavy to heartthrob was complete. It was Coburn's first leading role, but Flint made him a star, which means, among other things, that everybody wants him. They can get him too - for only $500,000, plus a slice of the profits...
Students who showed up last week for the previously announced band concert at Syracuse University's Grouse Hall were in for a jolt. The band had been canceled, and in its place was a performance with two pianos that were out of tune with each other, a soprano who bent her notes off pitch, and a chamber ensemble that blatted, swooped and squeaked like an ordinary orchestra warming up. At first it all sounded merely crabbed and comic, but soon it also took on the astringent freshness of a brave new musical vocabulary. It was a group...
...down his throat," says Democratic Speaker Jesse Unruh, who is puzzled nonetheless by Reagan's opposition to a system that most politicians regard as means of sugar-coating higher taxes. Warns Unruh: "I think the Governor may find, when he doubles the income tax and when that jolt hits the people next April 15, that withholding looks very good indeed...
...Vice President, was noteworthy because he would be the first Moslem ever to hold the post in a country that is 84% Hindu. As for the opposition, their aim was to give the government of Indira Gandhi, which is already reeling from a series of defeats, another serious jolt...