Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is intended to be uneven, in the sense that it veers from comedy to tragedy, and it is often difficult for both the audience and the actors to keep up with it. As far as the acting, it calls for deft switches from mocking subtlety to intense passion. Ann Marie Beigel, who plays Regina, remains at a level of intense passion, posturing so much that she becomes a caricature: Steven Gilborn, who plays Ben Hubbard, the sly son who plots his father's destruction, settles for mocking subtlety, so it comes as something of a shock when he threatens...
...many shortages, so much catching up to be done, that advocacy of zero growth would be heresy. Freedom is daily defined as freedom from want, and democracy is seen in terms of economic rights and Communist Party duties. The Western insistence on individuality is regarded as weakness and its passion for expression as a delusion. In a recent speech, Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov expressed his contempt for the Western version of democracy: "How can one speak of civil rights for the masses in capitalist countries where people live in fear of losing their jobs?" The picture of the West...
...Says Washington: "I knew I was good the first time I picked up a bat." That was when he was eleven, but Washington did not flip for baseball at the tune. In fact, he shunned it all the way through Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., where his real passion was basketball. (Small by basketball standards, Washington leaps so high that he has tune to dunk two balls on the same jump.) During the summers he played baseball on a city team, and it was there in 1972 that A's Scout Jim Guinn signed him. Guinn...
...Passion and Despair. War and Peace is finally catching on. In 1973 the work was chosen to open the new Sydney Opera House. A year ago in Boston, Sarah Caldwell presided over the first U.S. staging. Last week in New York, at long last, the Bolshoi Opera unveiled the production of War and Peace that it has been performing in Moscow since 1959. With chandeliers shining, cannons roaring, soldiers marching and Moscow burning, it was, as it should have been, spectacular. Coming along as the fifth of six productions offered by the Bolshoi during its current American debut...
...starts well along in the Tolstoy novel, with Prince Andrei Bolkonsky on a visit to Count Rostov's country estate, musing on the seeming emptiness of his life, then discovering Rostov's beautiful daughter Natasha. That and the next six scenes depict, with a mixture of passion, intrigue and despair, the decadent social life of prewar Russia. The last six scenes are devoted to the French invasion of 1812. Napoleon struts nervously (to the accompaniment of diabolic fanfares in brass), while Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov praises the people and plots the invader's doom ("The beast will...