Word: realms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delicatessen Window. Everding has mounted one of those productions in which the actors don't act but the scenery does. Wagner's two lovers live in an emotional realm of their own, encountering calamity only when they have to reconcile ecstasy with reality. Everding has them floating off into their own dreamworld during passionate scenes, returning to earth when other people are around. In a starkly symbolic setting where nothing is real, it might have worked. But in this production, both world and dreamworld look equally realistic. Nothing fuses...
Superstar's vulgarity is less in the realm of religion than of theatrical taste. Serious Lloyd Webber and Rice fans, in fact, may well be advised to open a new chapter in the age of McLuhan by turning down a chance at the show "because I loved the record." On LP, Jesus Christ Superstar is abstract, intimate, capable of subtly engaging the mind and the imagination. Director O'Horgan's frenetic Broadway incarnation is rarely any of those things. It is, instead, a frequently breathless and occasionally stupendous son et lumière show, crowded with mechanical contrivances, and a headlong...
...making such nominations, the President carries out a stewardship entrusted to him by the Constitution. Implicit in that stewardship are certain widely accepted criteria of eligibility for the office of Supreme Court Justice. These include, we believe, a rich experience and distinguished performance in the realm of law, and qualities of mind and spirit promising a wise and fair search for the legal merits of cases undistorted by partisan, personal, or regional bias...
...Administration among many businessmen that postwar American aid gives the U.S. a claim to special treatment in global competition. But gratitude, especially for those services rendered more than two decades ago, is the slenderest of reeds on which to build a foreign policy, particularly in the pragmatic realm of economics. An even more pervasive notion behind the increasingly tough U.S. trading stance is that American spending abroad has been largely an altruistic gesture that has almost exclusively benefited the recipients...
...Realm. Standardizing pitch would have other benefits. Violinists would no longer have to worry about strings snapping under increased tensions. Singers would no longer be shocked by discovering, as they walk onto a strange stage, that their parts have been transposed right out of the realm of possibility. Piano manufacturers would have fewer problems with shattered warranties. "On a grand piano, the pull on all strings creates a force of about 20 tons," says Dr. Daniel W. Martin, chief engineer of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. "Raising the pitch ten cycles adds another ton of pull. It could crack...