Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leap orders China's 74,000-odd communes to forget about any aid from Peking. They have been told that henceforth they themselves-not the government-must remunerate schoolteachers and medical personnel working in the countryside. Commune members are to make their own simple farm tools, freeing industry for more sophisticated production. Moreover, Peking is pushing a frugality theme to such a degree that celebrations for the New Year, China's biggest and happiest holiday, were woefully crimped last month...
That people exercise and warm up before a rehearsal does not seem very odd. Athletes do it all the time. But implicit in the kinds of exercises Cooper's cast has been doing is a concept of acting very different from what has often been common in the past. Perhaps it can best be called "gut" acting...
IMAGES FROM a Gothic novel haunt the second floor of Hilles Library in a strange set of 19th century prints. They recall illustrations in your grandmother's nostrildusting edition of Wuthering Heights where inked lines wove landscapes of odd faces an cloudy moors. Among the prints in Delacroix to Degas: Printmakers Contemporary to Daumier (a little too long and alliterative for the size of the show), the weird, excessively detailed scenes are the most fun. You keep finding an unexpected figure under a tree or a crow in the sky disguised in the dark linear pattern. These ambiguous details emerging...
...John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir is glowingly transparent, despite its 90-odd members, even in the tumultuous contrapuntal sections...
...their foster families, eating with them, sleeping in their own rooms, helping with household and farm chores (or working outside the house in bakeries, dairies or shops), sharing in the upbringing of the children or going out to movies and clubhouses. Families learn to tolerate a certain amount of odd behavior, and Geel has been remarkably free of mishaps. Thanks in part to the use of modern tranquilizers, there has been no serious outburst of violence by a patient for at least 15 years...