Word: propped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already the Videocorder has become a show-business prop. Performers can tape their rivals' shows; mimics are building up libraries of fresh material. Some colleges are testing it; Fairleigh Dickinson tapes chemistry lectures, suggests that students who were absent make up by watching tapes. A new rental market is opening up for TV-taped plays, operas and movies. And for homemade shows, there's nothing like it to keep little Polly's ninth birthday a joy forever. In fact, for the self-watcher the joys are limitless; when he has run through his whole library of tapes...
...neither Leete nor Miss Boyer knows how to move onstage. Leete occasionally relaxed enough not to look pained, but Miss Boyer was obviously frightened by the smallest prop manipulations. The general staging was no help. The two principals played against fuzzy, torn transparencies in a ramshackle slatboard set that was simply disgraceful, and moved underneath two ugly purple-specked quadrangles that had absolutely no function. An engaging jazz trio that sang mocking platitudes with Gleem-bright smiles was a lonely ray of grace amid the general desolation...
...know what Babe thinks of the play; one sensed an ambiguous reaction on his part. On the one hand, he has been respectful towards Frank Wedekind, leaving Springs Awakening almost uncut where cutting would have been kind. On the other hand, he has Brechtified the production with prop-changes by actors and a general milling-about on the stage and singing of songs before each of the three acts...
...associated with important didactic themes like virtue or temperance. In most of Copley's work the symbolic paraphernalia, like the background materials, is executed in a style that strongly contrasts it with the foreground subjects. In the portraits, the sitter is usually set off against a hazy stage-prop background that contradicts, in its two-dimensionality, the fullness and solidity of the foreground forms. Generally speaking, the quality of Copley's portraits varies inversely with the amount of paraphernalia and background cluttering...
...them up, all right, especially on the day, weeks later, when he finally had enough fuel on board for an escape. Five airport guards tried to stop him by hanging onto the tail. He blew them off with a blast of prop wash and headed for Pakistan, but not before circling over the Delhi jail to drop a packet of cookies to his former fellow inmates. Flying low, he eluded the Indian Air Force jets that were scrambled to bring him back. After landing at Karachi, he declared to reporters: "The only violation of Indian law I have committed...