Word: muted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miracle Worker. On film as on Broadway, the story of the child Helen Keller's release from the condition of a blind deaf-mute becomes an almost unbearably moving performance...
...Miracle Worker (Playfilms; United Artists) was. on Broadway, essentially a set piece for two actresses whose dialogue was a matter of touch, since one was playing a deaf, blind, mute child. It was less play than performance, done night after night with emotional brilliance by Patty Duke as the seven-year-old Helen Keller, and Anne Bancroft as her teacher, Annie Sullivan...
...people were rarely recognizable I faces that are ambiguous"), and they often seemed blurred into their environment. In both Bather and Ocean and Green Canoe, flesh takes on the color of earth; the forest melts into water, and sky blends into sea. To some degree, a figure by Park mute and thickly sculpted, can b seen simply as one more of nature's forms...
Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress is a true folk epic. It has a cast of thousands, plenty of fighting, a mute princess, Misa Uehara, a fire ritual and a noble hero (Toshiro Mifune). In fact, it contains all the ingredients of a first-rate western except a Shogun wedding. In addition, Kurosawa shores up his extravaganza with dramatically effective photography and he has directed his actors to move and speak in a style derived from Japan's traditional Kabuki Theater...
...sidewalk Hell. It was his debut in the pulpit-but the message was scarcely new to him. He had delivered it just the night before, downtown at Manhattan's smoky Blue Angel club. Mixing the groovy with the grave in songs that filled his life during a dozen mute years. Oscar Brown had at last found his voice. Matched with Brown's stylish skill as a performer, it promises to introduce him as the best new entertainer since Belafonte...