Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wholly so, as the funniest parts of his account maliciously attest. (Ted Morgan's Uncle Armand once brought Marcel Proust to lunch. Afterward the due de Gramont, Armand's father, handed his guest book to the already famous author "and with the total disdain of the nobleman for the artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free and easy, rambunctious, optimistic, cheerfully ready to build on both its successes and its mistakes. He likes American lingo and quotes a lot of it (Harry Truman...
Throughout the first half of the production, the innovative insertions are, with a few exceptions, burdensome and even annoying. Jeff Rothstein as the speaking Prospero saves the first half with a strong, well-modulated voice and a smooth characterization of the nobleman, set adrift years before, who seeks his revenge through sorcery. Marc Baum sparkles as Caliban, the semi-human creature who tries to escape his enslavement to Prospero. Baum bellows and mugs marvelously as the half-sane, half-stupid creature, off-setting weak performances by all three Mirandas, all of whom seem drugged...
...Greatest is a direct descendant of this decrepit breed. The scenes are shot and played as if there were no money for retakes, and the script refuses to entertain even a hint that its hero may at any time have acted any role less than that of a natural nobleman...
...currents. And then, of course, there are the Indians, always in the shadows, picking off stragglers. But the worst danger derives from the Spaniards' delusions, and the most deluded of all is that second in command, the Aguirre of the title. He foments a mutiny, places the one nobleman present in nominal charge of the expedition and, acting in that pliable gentleman's name, proceeds to tyrannize his ever dwindling band...
...world of benign magic. The firebird has a taste for the golden apples that grow in an enchanted grove. She is caught in the act of munching one (Makarova actually does a few steps with a gilded ball in her teeth) by the prince, who, like any right-minded nobleman in Russian ballet, is out hunting. In exchange for her freedom, she gives him a feather that will bring her and her supernatural powers to his side in time of trouble. She knows there will be an emergency soon because the forest is controlled by a demon who imprisons young...