Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ACSR had never previously supported a resolution seeking to curtail the Arab boycott. Last year, the committee reasoned that the federal government must take the lead role in curtailing the boycott...
Oberon, played by Hohn Heseltine, has an amazing voice. There is a strange paradox to Britten's characterization of the role--the King of the Fairies has to have a high voice that contrasts with the voices of the humans. Heseltine manages to avoid the pitfall of sounding like a choir-boy. He sounds unearthly and commanding at the same time...
Boston's new central business district makes sense only in light of the fact that every city must play the role of an entrepreneur, exploiting its comparative economic advantages to insure its economic survival. Replacing slums (usually with skyscrapers) and attracting badly needed tax revenues to the city are the two social and economic imperatives which make corporate capitalism so attractive to the Mayor and the Boston Redevelopment Authority. But how is it possible, within these priorities, to make the cityscape suitable for human existence? One kind of answer has emerged from the BRA's work on the waterfront...
...your shortcomings into assets. To date, Allen has made a half a dozen films in which short, hebbishy guys come out on top. By far the best of these is Play It Again, Sam, the tale of a romantically unsuccessful Bogart fan. In Bogart Allen has found the perfect role model for the short uglies of the world; after all, for Bogie--and life--dames are simple. This is the only one of Allen's films that he does not direct himself, and what is lost in manic humor is gained in coherence and sensitivity. Diane Keaton plays the paramour...
...many 50-year-old male dancers left," explains Béjart, who happens to be exactly 50. So, even though he hadn't danced onstage in nine years, Béjart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut in the relentlessly athletic work, which is set to music from Bach's Mass in B-minor with frequent explosions of Argentine tango, Béjart observed: Faust is not just a role, "it's a mid-life crisis. You want...