Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bonnie can hardly wait to get an electric iron, an electric water pump, a new washing machine and a dryer. A television set, she says, is at the bottom of the shopping list. She would much rather have her three children explore the Yaak than vegetate before the magic eye. "Later," she says, "we'll buy a freezer, and after that a waffle iron. It's been a long time since this family sat down to waffles...
...musical theater, shouted denials of the primacy of voice in opera, manifestoes in defense of drama. His idea of song is "communication heightened and intensified," and he demands that singers produce it as if they were inventing both words and melody in dramatic conversation. His production of The Magic Flute is the current classic, and no opera house can respectably ignore the standard that Felsenstein set with his Traviata, Bartered Bride, Otello and Tales of Hoffmann...
...Private Ear relies more on memory than magic, what playgoers remember and rue about their own first stumbling, infatuated steps toward love. "Tchaik" (Brian Bedford), a whimsically imaginative boy nicknamed for Tchaikovsky, is pathetically in earnest about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for him in a reproduction of Botticelli's Venus over his bed. With fear and trembling, plus a savvy pal's coaching, he has invited to his scrubby flat what he thinks is a feminine moonlight sonata. Enter the girl (Geraldine McEwan), a sniffly, scratchy, giggly chick with the inner...
Playing with Magic. In the first quarter, a vicious, blind-side tackle sent Staubach to the bench with a stretched nerve in his left shoulder. Five minutes later, as if nothing had happened, he was ramming through the center of the S.M.U. line for a touchdown. Southern Methodist's speedy backs scored twice before the half. But Staubach kept the Middies ahead-rolling out to his right to set up a touchdown, then rolling out to his left for the two-point conversion. By the half, 31 points were on the scoreboard: Navy 18, S.M.U...
...strategy. Sophomore Hugh Polk and center forward Cormac O'Malley are good enough to keep the Jeffs from using gang tactics against Ohiri, who has been moved to inside right. In his new position, Ohiri will be harder to box in and less vulnerable to Amherst's magic circle of defensemen...