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Word: mime (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marcel Marceau, a mime conceivably without living equal, celebrates the Pyrrhic victories of the human spirit. He is a pantomimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human. Mimicking a dynamiter, he blows himself up at pre cisely the moment when he is casually admiring his technical know-how. As a partygoer, he pirouettes through all the socia graces, only to get stupidly, staggering!) drunk. With his toes seemingly reading a tightrope in faltering braille, he teeters across the high wire, but only after the audience is made to know that courage can be the vanity of cowards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Poet of Silence | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...explain the French negative. The top piece of bread represents the ne, the filling the the bottom piece of bread the pas. Remember the sandwich." chirps Dawn reminding the viewer to use ne and pas and keep them apart. To teach the French possessive RTF uses a song-and-mime team called the Frères Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would get the idea. Hachette teaches the future tense in a setting where any other tense would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gals & Gauls | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...production-which resembles an oratorio in form-ran into trouble only be cause its diverse elements-orchestral music, song, narration, mime and dance-never quite had the chance to demonstrate their virtues in a massive production crammed into 21 minutes. One result was that musical ideas could not be fully developed with Stravinsky's twelve-tone technique. His music, the production's foundation, occasionally sounded like a collection of vignettes. Brilliant as it was, Balanchine's choreography was also bothered by limitations of space and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Igor's Flood | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...Lowell House Opera will president La Pazzla Senlle, a Madrigal with mime tonight, tomorrow Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Lowell . Also on the program are works Monteverdi and Scarlatti and, Sunday at 3:30 p.m., a Bach harpsicord by Peter Wolf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Opera to Perform | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...much for lament. Director Sarah Caldwell saw how much mime matters in this drama; conductor Lazla Halasz perceived the continual recurrence of counterpoint and fashioned a clear texture to exploit the score's intricate dove-tailing of motifs. Meistersinger does not employ Wagner's half-mystical interweaving of words and orchestration. Rather, it makes the orchestra a commentator on the drama's events. This Halasz recognized, and gave the orchestra the subtleties of dynamics and tempo demanded by its place in the opera...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Die Meistersinger | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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