Word: mimes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some other planet and brought to earth in a spaceship. The mad scientists put the hero in a water tank for days to take him back beyond the womb. They induce false but highly persuasive memories of his origins and, incidentally, provide Arkin with a tour de force mime sequence in which he acts out the old saw about ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny...
...elephant and the fable are both creatures of Mobil Oil Corporation, which recently produced a series of "issue oriented" commercials in fable form to accompany its Mobil Showcase television series "Edward and Mrs. Simpson." The elaborately-created ads, which feature stellar dance and mime groups, including the American Ballet Theater, promote the corporation's faith in laissez-faire capitalism and encourage the viewer to take stands against government control of profits, policy and company activities...
...Viet Nam War years were only on the surface. For one thing, the draft card was a facsimile; nobody could find the genuine article, which the Government stopped issuing in 1976. For another, the protesters were outnumbered by students who had gathered near by to be entertained by a mime and a punk-rock group. And on the fringes of the antidraft crowd, Joseph Taylor, a black graduate student in psychology, voiced a view that would hardly have been heard at Berkeley during the Viet Nam War. Said he: "This is a sincere effort on the part of the students...
This seminar will be followed by a workshop on mime, conducted by Mark Linn-Baker, a recent graduate of the Yale School of Drama...