Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nor are those songs done full justice. Musical director Michael Tschudin has contributed some flashy arrangements which sound fine coming from his small orchestra, but which seem to confuse the singers and on occasion clash with them as well. The result is that the orchestra and the cast are not...
Forman's serious dialogue--aside from excessive quotations--seems convincing. His characters might talk the way they do were they saying the things he has them say. But he tends to throw them at each other with an almost unbelievable viciousness, and without ever providing really adequate motivation. He also...
...Auden anything more significant than his remarks on the American postal system led the interviewer into a few unskillful New Yorkerisms ("The Island wanted more coffee"..."As a matter of fact, the Island has been to Iceland"); (and the mountain to Muhammed?). Despite Miss Travers' sweet disarming mysticism, which occasionally peeps out from behind the Mary Poppins syndrome ("One doesn't invent anything, you see; ideas are dredged up from goodness knows where--they're there abiding, lying in wait..."), there are a few gems, among them her recollections of the Irish poet A.E. (George Russell) ("He took me under...
Thus, amid centuries-old pomp and pageantry-and for the first time under the eyes of television cameras-the Queen last week summoned the Commons to a parliamentary session that promises to be the longest, most loquacious and most Laborious since the end of World War II. As 185 rounds...
Though not physically equipped to play the big of that Brecht intended Galy Gay to be, Bro Uttal is, with some cutting of lines, adequate as a little oaf. He whines piteously at first and shouts fiercely afterwards; that he has no occasion for any other sort of verbalization can...