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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In this production. Warner lets his imagination go wild. He uses dozens of bizarre, totally unexpected props to complement his players' fine interpretation of the lines--from the very first scene, with leaping figures dancing to calypso music to the last, in which the characters wear BVD's and very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bag Full of Tricks | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

In Warner's version, occult occurrences are almost taken for granted--they appear in almost every scene. But the significance of these scenes is cheapened by Warner's reliance on flashy costumes, anachronistic props, and the original music by Peter Melnick. These external ornaments overshadow the plot, and the three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bag Full of Tricks | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

A PSFU DO HITCHCOCK thriller, romantic melodrama, and Gethic tale combined into one. Robin Davis new movie I Married A Shadow defies definition. On one hand, the movie is a refreshing thriller that portrays characters as more than mere props to be clanged, banged, and shuffled through "the story." There...

Author: By Hanne-marie Majala, | Title: Harlequin Romance | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

In one warehouse, an A-framed former Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Grothus points out things at random. "Boron-loaded polyethylene, a neutron absorber. Who the hell wants it? I've got twelve or so 400-channel analyzers. Stacks of nuclear-instrumentation modules. IBM card punches and readers-obsolete by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Jacobson as Lovborg is not only convincing but heartrending, with a meek bearing masking an inner, doomed nobility of character. What keeps him and Brack from salvaging the play is the same lack of ambition that hampers the other actors. This time, though, the lack comes in the production staff...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Power Shortage | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

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