Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while producer Harold Prince's knack for bringing together the right artists to execute his Zorba tells much of his showmanship, it is his own artists as director that contributes most to his triumph. After a long dry spell since the heyday of Jerome Robbins, Prince has come to remind us what the serious musical is all about...
Albee's characters have never been quite believable, but he used to have a fine knack for making their hostilities waspishly real. His weakness has been an inability to spin a plot, which is why he has adapted and borrowed so much. In Box-Mao he tries to make a virtue out of that weakness by eliminating any narrative whatsoever. The resulting story vacuum masquerades as an experiment in abstraction...
...Viet Nam help care for them. German shepherd scout dogs lead jungle patrols sniffing out ambushes. Often they are more alert than their masters: last week, a U.S. Marine company commander took heavy casualties in an ambush after ignoring a dog's warning. The shepherds have an uncanny knack for avoiding booby traps (apparently, their ears can pick up the tiny sound made by the breeze on a taut trip wire). One handler, Marine Sergeant Roy Jergins, says: "I walk where my dog walks, and I walk right through the booby traps." Mean sentry dogs who attack anyone...
...have even kissed my first baby," he says wryly. Like Julie, he has developed a knack for graciously self-effacing banter. When a group of elderly Rhode Islanders recently presented him with a pair of cuff links, he grinned: "Mr. Nixon is getting a little sick of my using his cuff links all the time, so thanks very much...
...much spark himself ("He still hadn't learned not to make that kind of demand, not to ask for a relationship of dependence rather than one of equals face to face"). Even so, British critics have compared the author to Virginia Woolf, noting that both have the knack of tuning the physical world precisely to the pitch of the characters' emotions...