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...Lyndon Johnson's sidesplitting acts when he resided hereabouts was on George Parr, the "Duke" of Duyal County in Texas. Lyndon would imitate Parr calling in on his old-fashioned crank telephone. "Can you hear me, Lyndon, can you hear me?" L.B.J. the mime would quaver, holding up an imaginary two-piece phone. Then Johnson would act out his own role. "Yes, yes, go ahead, George." And sure enough, the Duke would report another election landslide for his chosen candidates, Lyndon being one. Johnson was funny imitating Parr. The thought of Parr was funny, being...
With his citadel under siege, Bluhdorn is silent as a mime on all these matters, and no other officer will offer as much as a syllable of explanation. One middle-level employee describes the current atmosphere at G & W as "paranoid." It was rather startling that a routine registration statement filed lately by Associates First Capital Corp., a financial-services subsidiary of G & W, was rejected by the SEC because of incomplete disclosure. Even more anguish has been caused to shareholders by the drop in the company's stock: it has sagged by more than 20% this year, leaving...
...family had a deeper effect, as patrons, on all the institutions of. Japanese culture from swordmaking to the tea ceremony. And the Nō theater, that elaborate and (to most non-Japanese) incomprehensibly subtle combination of masked mime, costume, song and dance, received its classical form under the Tokugawa aegis. The family collection, housed in the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, is generally acknowledged to be the greatest private hoard of Japanese art in the world. In the area of Nō costumes, it is unsurpassable. The Japan Society show, which opened at Washington's National Gallery...
Ironies such as this occurred throughout the show. Its creators, realizing that the average American's conception of mime includes whiteface makeup, clowning, and exaggeration, began many of the sketches in a comic spirit, which later gave way to a more serious message. Once the audience was conditioned to the shock value the medium is capable of, the actors presented a wide variety of emotions and ideas in later sketches...
...mime itself appeared to be the most unstructured element in the show, but it actually was a very controlled and painstaking exercise. Under the guidance of Grumbach, Pennell, and training consultant Johnny Seitz, the cast performed almost flawlessly. The members possessed varying degrees of experience in the art, but they succeeded in creating the necessary images to make the sketches believable...