Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political spectrum in the American university. He is a man who was on the Left when it was hard to be on the Left, who put his career as a director on the line for the right of his actors to use the American flag on stage as a prop, who paid his dues to the Movement long ago. But now he has chosen to lash out against those to his left in a tone of frenzied polemic which insures that they will never take him seriously. He has argued a number of points which are, in themselves, eminently reasonable...
...Wales and northern England. The cast, fortified by daily rations of vitamin C, slogged through gales, rain, freezing temperatures and even hailstones. Polanski, 37, whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing the actors with water. Far from complaining, the youthful cast seemed caught...
...Federal Reserve's prime job is to prevent just such disasters. After Texas Congressman Wright Patman, an archenemy of banks and railroads, blocked the Nixon Administration's efforts to prop up the Pennsy with a $200 million loan guarantee, the Federal Reserve moved swiftly to steer the financial system out of danger. The board made a special point of offering to advance credit to commercial banks through its "discount window," providing them with much needed funds for relending to corporations that had to pay off commercial paper. The mechanism was conventional, but the need for speed...
...Moves ... a Sculpture by Henry Moore. Photographs by David Finn; Words by Donald Hall. 160 pages. Abrams. $35. One hundred and thirty-one ways of looking at a bronze-in this case, Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop. Finn's fine photographs explore masses, probe patinas, present perspectives, titillate with textures. Poet Hall's words are blessedly brief. Their joint aim is to educate the eye. A splendid book for Moore fanciers. For others, the year's richest example of cultural overkill...
...that's-a spicy meatball!" Trouble is, every take is fouled up: Jack blows his lines, forgets his Italian accent. At one point a fiery meatball scorches the roof of his mouth and all he can do is gasp. Enter Alka-Seltzer. Finally, after a perfect take, the prop oven door falls off, and the tired director sighs, "Cut. O.K. Let's break for lunch." It may not be Pirandello, but the effect does depend on taking the viewer across the TV "proscenium" into the studio...