Word: prop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brewster McCIoud. Altman says that it is "an adult fairy tale'' about a man who lives in the Astrodome and learns to fly. "It's about insanity. It's about cruelty; but the main physical substance is bird s..t." And the droppings (made by prop men from sour cream, mustard and paint) are as plentiful as the blood...
Over the centuries, there have been two kinds of theater, the elitist and the vulgarian. In Aristophanic comedies, male characters were endowed with huge prop phalli with which they thwacked each other. Early forms of the Kabuki theater were closed down by the shogun in 17th century Japan for encouraging prostitution and inciting lewd homosexual byplay on and off stage. Italy's commedia dell'arte was frequently obscene in word and gesture...
...final week of campaigning, Wilson, usually accompanied by his wife Mary, billowed through the hustings, laughing off barrages of eggs, bags of talcum powder, Tory hecklers and even a bolt of lightning that struck his train at Attenborough. Heath, whistling across the sceptred isle in an executive prop jet. plugged away at his efforts to swing 49 key marginal constituencies away from Labor. But Heath was unable to match Wilson's jaunty confidence. He did unbend enough toward the campaign's end to drink with workers in pubs and buss young girls. Nonetheless. Heath sniffed...
...Right now American officials welcome revaluations because they tend to lower the price of U.S. goods in foreign markets. But revaluations also amount to a gradual cheapening of the dollar measured against other currencies: too many revaluations too close together could shake foreign faith in the dollar as the prop of the world financial system. The outcome could be another series of monetary crises, and perhaps imposition in self-defense by many countries of the exchange controls and trade restrictions that the U.S. has fought hard to dismantle...
Chaiki−a monkish-looking alumnus of the Living Theater−is also stripping the Tired Old Theatergoer to his pre-prop basics. Audiences bored with seeing curtains go up on living rooms that imitate their own will find themselves confronted by inner rather than outer realities. Chaikin says that he is striving toward "a theater of ritual dreams, phantoms, clowns, monsters." In other words, the pure joys, and terrors, of make-believe...