Word: oracular
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Duerrenmatt's che sera sera fatalism is colored by a little wit, less eloquence, and the kind of oracular vision that informs playgoers that the work of atomic scientists might doom the human race. Cronyn, Tandy, Voskovec and, most especially, Robert Shaw, perform with the unerring precision of fine Swiss watches, but they are sealed in an intellectual Swiss cheese...
Anne Lilley (Electra) amirked coyly in some of her most serious speeches and several times mouthed the opening word of a line silently or made a tentative gesture before going through with the actual business. And Carl Nagin (Orestes) didn't help the pace much either with his oracular delivery...
...hysterical hour every evening getting him into his ensemble, and when he steps out the door he looks faintly like an Oriental garden?subtle colors echoing back and forth, prim suits and silk shirts glimmering discreetly. He spends hours standing around with his band, talking in his unpenetrable, oracular mode. "All ways know, always night, all ways know?and dig the way I say 'all ways,' " he says, smiling mysteriously. When he is playing anywhere near New York, the baroness comes to drive him home, and they fly off in the Bentley, content in the knowledge that there...
...Oracular Instincts. Graham's dancing today is a grace remembered. She has become fragile and precarious onstage. The mute eloquence of her gestures is now as terse as it is cryptic; her dances are only sketches of her intent. But the 19 other dancers-nine male, ten female-in her company are all masters of the "virile gestures" that, she says, "are evocative of the only true beauty." Movement is full of the strain and pain academic ballet attempts to conceal, and each step is meant as a metaphor that tells of the life of the heart. Barefoot...
...Such oracular instincts bring a muscular moral to most Graham ballets, but she tempers her preachments with ironic wit and a healthy interest in all circumstances that cause the hips to quiver. Her choreography is full of strangely natural distortions of movements from life-leaps and spread-eagle stretches, fluttering fingers, crawls, great sweeps of outstretched legs, pelvic rolls and caresses.* Her open-air approach to sex makes her company more masculine than most-though the soft little scrimmage in her new Secular Games manages to make even her strong male dancers look disturbingly dainty...