Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Dunster version of My Fair Lady shines during Milton's scenes and when Col. Picering (Marc Dolan--the one actor not cast in the movie's all-pervasive mold) calls the police to report Eliza's disappearance, the audience expects more. A production of one of the most popular musicals of all time--in which every song is a hit and the audience can practically recite favorite lines along with the actors--should not be picayune and imitative. The Dunster crew shows how worn a top-notch musical can become when it loses its youthful flair...
Martha is the stongest character in the play and Shallo handles the part admirably. Often the role is tackled by full-figured actresses with talent less than proportional to their physical attributes. Happily, Shallo does not fit that mold. Rather than pigeon-hole Martha as an aging liquor-ridden seductress, Shallo adds depth to the character by emphasizing her sense of humor and her love of laughter. Martha would like to be happy, but she seems unable. It is this that makes her pathetic rather than ridiculous...
Oppenheimer said students are helped most by instructors who give feedback and teach at a basic level so students do not try to mold themselves to Harvard. He added, "there is no chance of improving until Harvard begins rewarding instructors" and thereby provides incentives for good teaching...
...succeeds brilliantly, mostly through the superb performance of Phillipe Noiret as Rousseau, Bouvier's presiding judge. Despite some heavy handed parallels between the two men such as their shared penchant for sodomy and red heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please his mother...
...books of Woodward and Bernstein hint at just how fascinating that book could be. There's no definitive LBJ biography yet either, mostly because Bill Moyers won't write it, but his, too, was a big life, a larger-than-life life. But Jerry Ford comes from a different mold--he fell into his job. He made it to the top the way officers advance in the Army: he got along by going along. And that meant being a cipher...