Word: mimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think of this personalized feminism as a parlor form of guerilla warfare that uses an artillery of intuitive language--mime, gesture, silence--to sabotage the enemy. It is rather like a revolution of manners, something felt rather than articulated. You can't structure a sensibility, you can only recognize it. And you recognize it not in action but in the reverberations of an action, like watching drops of water distilled from the air, or learning to hear the unspoken associations in the grooves of a sentence. My feminism works rather like an inner eye that registers the other side...
...next act in the show was a dance troupe, with a polished Brechtian little mime about the dog-eat-dog world. In the background a slide projector flashed pictures of atrocities in Indochina. Again a question--What is the way out of all this? Blackout. And on stage appears Davis to give The Answer...
...bather's short mime is a joy at a time When the overture's tortured by strings and winds. (The orchestra's bigger than most, but I figure Size does not excuse imprecision...
...disciples dance through deserted parks and alleys singing and enacting biblical parables in mime. The film develops neither theme nor character, but repeats the same boring stories about beggars and Samaritans. Continually the actors pantomime misers by contorting their faces and bend their bodies into weary beggars. The songs are as good as any chicken-rock. But someone might have told Steven Schwartz, the composer, that fast music isn't necessarily good music...
...Loeb is billing Psalms as "a celebration in song, dance and mime...an ingenious blend of historical drama and psychological insight." On the surface it is a story set in the decadent court of Saul, with eunuchs, concubines and vicious intrigues; and later in David's court--cleaner but just as doomed. On a deeper level it is a philosophical statement on the meaning of faith, a grappling with the question of foreknowledge in an ill-fated life. If one got a flash of one's future, how would this affect the choices eventually made? A complex and sophisticated juxtaposition...