Word: mimes
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...just a large quotient of raciness distinguishes this year's summer theater group, made up of Harvard undergraduates and June graduates. In addition to the group's normal two major productions at the Loeb Drama Center, the company has organized an ambitious five-week workshop festival, including drama, dance, mime, and staged readings...
...Tibetan Book of the Dead,a ceremonial performance integrating mime, dance, and recitation of scripture, provides us with an excellent opportunity to understand one of Tibet's most sacred rites--the ceremony preceding the final moments of a dying person's life. The uniqueness of the subject alone makes for both an intellectually and spiritually stimulating evening...
Slight of build, with an eminently squinchy face, McKellen is not an overwhelmingly noble presence. His Shakespearean range is probably closer to Ralph Richardson's than Olivier's. But he has wit, a mime's command of body language, and the antic courage of an impressionist. There is wonderful calculation in the way he flings himself about the stage and trots through history giving persuasive impersonations of predecessors like Richard Burbage and David Garrick, as well as such critics as Pepys and Shaw...
Director John Carpenter and Screenwriter Bill Phillips have compacted and customized Stephen King's screaming jalopy of a novel until it moves with sleek '50s lines and a sassy tailfin flip at the end. Graceful tracking shots mime the killer car's gliding menace; the deserted nighttime streets are washed chrome-shiny by rain. The high-school scenes, which are neither coarse nor condescending, put every other current teenpic to shame. Carpenter's cast mixes vigorous old pros with young comers; Keith Gordon is a hilariously intense Jekyll-and-Snide. The movie-Carpenter's best...
Before Space Oddity became a hit, Bowie could be seen at various venues throughout Britain, performing a mime inspired by the Chinese invasion of Tibet. (Please, do not rush to the exits. Proceed in an orderly fashion.) After two more years and yet another record company (his sixth), Bowie produced his first important album. Hunky Dory was a hothouse of lush rock that contained such Bowie perennials as Changes, Oh! You Pretty Things and the enigmatic The Bewlay Brothers. That song may have been an oblique allegory of David and Terry Jones, who has spent much of his adult life...