Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caricatures drawn on stage by the HDC are violent, rakish monstrosities whose antics are usually funny, especially when the actors slow down and give Brecht's witty asides a chance. Perhaps, as the run progresses, some will give their lines more of the broad irony that Brecht seems to intend. Others, particularly Eugene Pell, Richard Smithies, David Mills and Edith Iselin lay it on just right. And Claire Lu Thomas, portraying the angelic prostitute, manages to keep her sweet head in admittedly adverse circumstances (everybody picks on her because she's good...
Cuba's slow-motion rebellion begins its third year next week, a study in inertia but nonetheless a tense and tragic struggle that must end in a crashing showdown...
...nothing grows. But it is when he looks at life on the seamy side that Tati has his grandest inspirations. There is a marvelous sequence, apropos of nothing, in which a dog leads a man on a leash. Yet surely the funniest passage in the picture is the long slow crescendo of comedy in which four hard-eyed, ten-year-old gamblers squat in an empty lot, whistle at passing pedestrians, and make book on which of them will look around, forget where he is going and crash into the nearest lamppost...
...corridor; students' coats locked up each morning so children will be less likely to run away from school; girls sent to the lavatory two-by-two so that they will not be attacked sexually. Allen taught English to "average" eighthgraders and two classes of ninth-graders euphemistically called "slow learners." Their...
...moderate sea, manned by semi-mutinous sailors and officered by incompetents, a staff officer groaned in despair: "This is simply nothing but a fraud-an infamous fraud." It would have been, without Admiral Rozhestvensky, a towering, bearded figure who bellowed crews into submission, fired live ammunition at ships slow in answering signals, bullied Hamburg-Amerika colliers into following the fleet to coal...