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...doing the whole cunt-woman prop thing or not?” asks one cast member. The roughly twenty members of the Athena Theater Company (ATC) present at the meeting break out in a peal of giggles...
...doing the whole cunt-woman prop thing or not?” asks one cast member. The roughly twenty members of the Athena Theater Company (ATC) present at the meeting break out in a peal of giggles...
From our own historical vantage point, so concerned as we are with issues of violence and war, it would be difficult not to hear the “sounding” of Kandinsky’s “first hour” as an ominous peal, a thunderclap, a clash of cymbals—announcing the end, if not of the world, then at least a certain way of perceiving it. Or perhaps it serves as a warning against excessive optimism...
...fireman, the pealing of a call-up bell is at once a summons to action, an intimation of danger, and perhaps a foreshadowing of death. Even after 26 years in the job, Tony Collis still gets an adrenaline jolt when the bell begins to ring in central London's Manchester Square Fire Station. But when the familiar clanging began at 9 a.m. last Friday, Collis felt only emptiness. Instead of running for the gear and piling into their red fire engines, Collis and his colleagues strolled somberly to the front of the ornate 19th century red-brick building...
...viewer as effortlessly as he did his screen partners. The actor, who died in 1996 at 72, recalls his career with eloquence, irony and a gentle wonder. To hear him utter, with a child's reverence, the names Gary Cooper and Clark Gable is to hear a cordial peal of thunder from one Olympic peak to another. "I like people; I love life," he says. "Perhaps that is why life has loved me in return." At three hours-plus, this is the Shoah of movie-star chats. But it is worth every second if the viewer brings an imaginary glass...