Word: sere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Philip Saville went to Denmark's Elsinore Castle to make a television Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer. Going to Greece to film Oedipus the King in an ancient amphitheater is also a gimmick, but it has paid off better. The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed. The local peasant faces among the extras give an authenticity to the hoi polloi that makeup men could never have managed...
Nevertheless a sere rendition of the political mileu in dramatic outline would not and cannot be enough to keep a play suspended high and Babe Knows so--the crowning glory has to come from soaring moments of poetry from outbursts of noble fanaticism, the over-statement of the impassioned orator. Thus when the final blackout comes it is to chants of Malcolm's "Give us the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot or the Bullet, the Ballot of the Bullet..." The hypnosis the cries generate is appropriate, however inadequate they may be as statements for programmatic action...
semples & Turboprops. "A magnificent landscape; but one looks at it with a sinking of the heart; there is something profoundly horrifying in this immense, indefinite not-thereness of the Mexican scene," Aldous Huxley wrote in the days when tourists traveled on bumpy roads across the sere, dusty landscape. The jet age has gone far to remove the boredom that made one Texas lady remark: "It's what's between the high spots that depresses me so." Today, there are eleven daily direct jet flights into Mexico City from...
...appearances are deceiving. Accustomed since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) to a seemingly endless blossoming of new theatrical talent, Londoners now are suffering through a period of drought. According to TIME Correspondent Horace Judson, the crackle of sere and yellow revivals is in the air. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is still running in what is advertised as its "16th mind-boggling year." Among the musicals in town are a revival of The Boy Friend (1953) and an exhumation of The Desert Song (1926). George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during...
...does he do it for the money alone, which comes to about $5,000 a segment. The tropical TV locations make it all a working vacation. "When you reach the sere and yellow stage," as Evans sums it up,"why not? There is so little fun left elsewhere today. Broadway is so anxious, so grim...