Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AUDIENCES at English comedies written before 1800 usually spend the first act on the edge of their seats, so busy trying to follow the dialogue that relaxation is out of the question. In the hands of a good director, they will gradually catch the rhythm of stylized language, the trick of keeping the intricate plot in order without constantly consulting the program: only then can they be properly drawn into the dramatic illusion. But at the American Repertory Theater's production of The School for Scandal, written in 1777 by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the audience is at ease long before...
These extravaganzas of DeMillean dimension have fallen into disfavor with cost-conscious designers and jaded audiences. The shows have been slightly scaled down, but are diminished only in dimension, not purpose. Their rhythm, far from stately, is a touch slower, just as the rate of stylistic change may generally have been tempered. "The slower-paced changes in men's wear are moderating the rhythm of women's wear," says Gianni Versace, "which seems right to me, given the hard economic times we are living through...
After the life-or-death marketing of Apocalypse Now and One from the Heart, it is refreshing to come upon a Coppola film that is, bless it, only a movie. Alas, The Outsiders is not quite a good one. Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama. Nor are the greasers romanticized enough to be seen as avatars of the outlaw lovers in Frank Borzage's Moonrise...
...christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed between the film makers and the audience...
Among the first to advocate a modern italic as the basis for handwriting reform was the English calligrapher Alfred Fairbank. His series of books, written with Charlotte M. Store and published in 1957, starts children off with simple zigzag lines to harness their natural sense of rhythm. As children draw faster, they will round off the zigs and zags either on top or bottom. Then they are taught to turn rows of circles into slightly slanted ovals. If they alternate these ovals with equally slanted lines, they have all the basic components of lower-case italic letters (and,incidentally...