Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have already been quite a few movies about rock 'n' roll: concert films like Woodstock, lightweight dramatic vehicles tailored-to-measure for pop stars, documentaries offering cinema-verité glimpses of Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones. There have even been a couple of films that used the world of rock as a metaphor for power and ruin: for in stance, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (TIME...
...Dunster Lysistrata adds several musical numbers which contribute to its lightweight impression. The music is entertaining, though there is nothing particularly brilliant about any of it. Sometimes the whole production takes on a high-schoolish air, but this usually doesn't last too long. The tone and content of the production sometimes approaches that blend of the cute, the childishly obscene and the genuinely funny that must have been present in '30s House productions with titles like Whore and Piece...
Narrow Road to the Deep North is a good, serious play about zen and Japan by Edward Bond. It's not the most exciting two and half hours of theater around, but it's far from lightweight. At the Loeb mainstage, tonight, Fri, Sat, Sun, Tues...
...powerful 1922 Committee, gave him a rousing vote of nonsupport. Of the 21 attending a meeting of the committee, only two said they were for Heath. However, Heath's own preferred successor, former Northern Ireland Proconsul William Whitelaw, is disparaged by much of the party as an amiable lightweight. At the same time, former Party Chairman Edward du Cann, a successful financier and a leader of the party's right wing, is suspected by many as a schemer...
Three Radcliffe boats competed in the eights event, but rowing novices filled two, and the lightweight squad powered the other...