Word: prosceniums
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...partisans in the gallery had stopped rustling their literature the prosecutor was suffering quietly with his back in Edelin, the reporters had stopped taking notes, the officious court officers were sitting in glum disability, and the judge had yielded his court to an cerie silence and the imaginary proscenium of the defense table to leave the prosecution's case broken...
...journals knows that if nothing is as old as yesterday's news, nothing seems fresher than its editorial cartoon. In satirizing events and event makers, the cartoon refines material until only the ridiculous essence remains. Circumstances impossible in the real world are staged upon the cartoonist's proscenium: the politician comes face to face with his broken promises, hypocrisy assumes a human face, fingers are pointed, blame is fixed, responsibility attached to recognizable figures...
Guts and Power. The Rodgers sound comes from 192 speakers in 29 cabinets, four of which are 30-in. woofers (for the deep pedal tones) located high in the flies above the stage. The output of the five manuals (keyboards) comes from 18 cabinets strung invisibly within the proscenium arch behind acoustic gauze. In essence the new organ is a giant electronic sound synthesizer. Yet Fox's performances last week -despite his wearisome look-at-me antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic...
...favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass of naked dancers is a chastely gowned portrait of Mrs. Harkness, making obeisance to the goddess of dance. The painting almost glows in the dark, which means that the audience can still glimpse undraped breasts and genitals even during a performance...
...result was strangely pictorial sculpture: freestanding but often flat as a relief, sometimes unintelligible when walked round. The figures are meant to be seen from the front, as if drawn up on their massive bases beneath an imaginary proscenium arch. From the back they are apt to disintegrate into a welter of craggy texture and bronze lumps. They insist always on a specific remoteness from the viewer...