Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film has more than enough pit comedy to make up for any lack of subtlety, and if Brigitte's Bardot's performance is not as dramatically skillful as that of Grace Kelly in the somewhat similar Rear Window, Miss Bardot has certain other fundamental qualities that make up for the difference...
...term as head of the Department of Public Works, where there was more construction in my last year of office, 1955, than there ever was before or ever has been since." He concluded, his voice almost a shout, "I have had experience in state government, not in the pit of politics. . . .I don't need to prove my honesty. The FBI proved that...
...contrast, The Sentence, by Giacomo Manzoni, 28, was a shrill, spare twelve-tone work that made fiendishly difficult demands on the singers and left the orchestra pit littered, in the words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will...
Both the show and the playhouse are massive. Built of granite, marble and glass, partly sheathed in bronze, the theater has a 3,200-seat auditorium that suggests a modern Met. The orchestra pit is wide enough for 76 trombones in slide-out profile, and the actors all but use roller skates to move about the 7,650-sq.-ft. stage, which cozily holds Camelot's 17 brilliant sets...
...cloud-soft "swans" of England's Royal Ballet last week skimmed through a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a small woman with grey sculptured hair clapped her hands to halt the piano in the pit of the Metropolitan Opera House. "What on earth are the swans doing? Really!" She asked in a voice edged with impatience. "Movements on strong beats, please. You understand, don't you?" And "Isn't this lighting brighter than in the first...