Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic danse macabre acted out by a demented, tyrannical king (MacLean) and his distraught fool (Bramhall). Riders to the Sea centers on the death by drowning of the last two male members of a once-large Irish family. Madness is not so difficult to portray, once you get the knack of it. Grief is a good deal harder...
This is not to detract from MacLean's accomplishment, for he most certainly has the knack, and he is both moving and horrifying. He makes excellent use of a stammer as a verbal pivot on which to make some of the many sudden changes of mood required of him. Furiously angry, he catches on a word, his hand moves to his mouth, and his assertiveness turns into fear. At other times he freezes for a moment, before delivering a pathetic non sequitur...
Fiedler puts things together with an unerring knack for creative programing and a repertory of close to a thousand selections from Bach to Chubby Checker. With exuberant ease, the maestro and 90 members from the Bos ton Symphony Orchestra achieve what many of their imitators are still striving for-popularity for Pops...
...KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all-but-bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and, at times, almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts...
...only in recent A.D. days have they become something more than what to wear in the shower, at the beach, at home alone, or on a tour through alien lands whence the news will not get back. Gradually, as America discovered its special fashion nook, a knack for the sporting look, sandals began to be everywhere, and everywhere pretty much proper...