Word: leape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage for O'Neill's entrance into the theater world. Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov and Synge were dead. In America, travelling companies that repeated Shakespeare or other European imports were very popular. Yet, says Berlin, these were only "escapist, money-making entertainment," yet to be considered art. Making that leap to original art was the accomplishment of O'Neill and his amateur theater group, the Provincetown Players. Also credited with bringing vemacular to the American stage, he set many of his plays in backgrounds that demanded specific U.S. regional dialects. His ease with language, his imaginative use of sound, light...
...MOST INSISTENT presence in Marcc Bellocchio's Leap Into the Void is the director himself. He is almost tangibly there in the background of each heavily symbolic scene, shaking a first at reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience. It is not that he refuses to communicate. The themes--madness and sanity, meaning versus nihilism--present themselves at every turn. It's just that their hammering symbolism and anti-realism become tedious after a while. The director, it seems, is almost coercing one to interpret first, watch later. But unless...
...familiar piano, haunts as a danse macabre. But even if a metaphor superimposed upon another should create an interesting metaphor for the ever-central void, the concept cannot sustain interest for all that long. Whatever its merits, the piece is likelier to clicit a perturbed yawn than a leap of any sort...
...special. Still, there are times when they surmount his failures. Milton Berle was a study in self-pity while describing the anguish of fathering an illegitimate son, but displayed his comic mastery when he narrated a story of his attempted suicide. Perched at the window, Berle was about to leap. He was discovered by his secretary, who begged him not to jump and said, "Let's order some turkey." Berle looked away, inconsolable, then slowly turned his head and asked, "See if they got roast beef?" -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Marcia Gauger/Boston
From the outset of the contest, things did not go the Crimson's way. In the afternoon's first event. Harvard's best long jumper. Jimmy Johnson, pulled his hamstring as he took off for his second leap. He will not return to action for at least four weeks, but despite his injury, his first leap of 23 ft. 8 1/4 inches was good enough to earn him third place Northeastern captured the first two spots...