Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concrete "action" in the play it was crucial for director Dan Freudenberger and his actors to emphasize character and establish distinct, consistent styles for each role. They did so brilliantly. Each actor had a characteristic walk, and vocal tone. Even the set of their mouths was distinctive. I. Mackenzie Lamb as Davies rasped out his lines with twitching lips and lolling tongue. Aston, played by Tom Jones, moved his lips, slowly, evenly, methodically, biting and clenching them only in his hypnotic description of an electric shock treatment. James Shuman as Mick would harass Davies, using an exaggerated enunciation, flaring...
...Lamb and Jones were physically perfect for their roles. Lamb, with a forehead dripping stringy hair, a mouth missing front teeth and surrounded by a grizzled chin, moved across stage with shambling feet and hands that shared time twitching and scratching. The hulking Jones mastered the vacant grin and the dead, controlled stare of a man who ever since the doctors removed the "pincers" from his skull "couldn't look to the right or the left . . . just straight ahead...
...charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
...there was no doubt of Shelepin's chilly reception when his jet touched down at Peking airport en route to Hanoi for a "technical stopover." An unsmiling Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten on the plane, so generalities were exchanged about the weather, and the Ilyushin winged aloft a scant 50 minutes after landing...
...Katharine Susan Anthony, 87, bestselling biographer of some of history's more notable women, a onetime Wellesley College geometry teacher and psychiatry buff who enthusiastically delved into such psyches as those of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette and Louisa May Alcott, caused a furor with her 1945 The Lambs, in which she theorized that Essayists Charles and Mary Lamb turned to writing as a sublimation of their incestuous love; following a heart attack; in Manhattan...