Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stoppard is a rabbit breeder of words-button-tailed, twitchy-nosed, big-eared, bright-eyed and always on the hop. Onstage, words do lead to talk, too much talk, perhaps, in this play, but much of it is exhilaratingly Shavian. In the new guise of a didact, Stoppard comes out for a free press ("Information is light...
...visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans), has scored a beat on him by interviewing the rebel leader. The trio is completed by a photographer (Dwight Schultz) who has apparently seen some thing of this increasingly nebulous struggle. As the play progresses, all the gentlemen in it begin to resemble rhetorical wallpaper...
...people. Ballard opens with pure spectacle, allowing his movie to get off to a rousing start. As the camera wanders around an exotic ship traveling near North Africa in 1946, there is mystery and sensuous excitement at every turn. In one corner of the ship, middle-aged adventurers silently play poker for a high-stakes pot of dazzling gems and religious icons. In another, a bizarre team of white-gowned Arabs zealously guards a shrieking black Arabian stallion. When a storm strikes late one night, the film provides a shipwreck of classic proportions. In a series of corrosive, lightning-quick...
Romain and Speech Pathologist Anne Koeneke, who was assigned to Ginny, meanwhile began to use "play situations" to build up the twins' limited English. The girls could not easily arrange syllables into understandable words. They spewed out what English words they had with a machine gunlike rapidity. Given modeling clay (which they pretended was potato salad), kitchen implements, dolls and dollhouses, the twins would play and the speech pathologists would ask questions. Where should the doll go? "Inhouse," Gracie might answer. "Oh, in the house," Romain would reply slowly. Single words were expanded to phrases, phrases to sentences. Romain...
Half a minute later, and 1:17 before the end of regulation time, the Bruins played Santa and presented the Crimson with a minute-long power play as Slonim left the ice for tripping...