Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While East Berlin's Turandot emphasized the oriental barbarity of the libretto, La Scala's version brought out its fairytale quality and its atmosphere of Eastern mystery. The sets were high and airy, often lighted with foggy uncertainty to give the illusion of immensely stretching space. The cast moved with the highly stylized, mincing grace of the traditional Chinese theater. The opera's few moments of pure horror, as when the executioner carries in the head of the Prince of Persia in Act I, were so skillfully blended into the fabric of stage movement that they were...
...footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
Ironically, many seats went empty on planes. Thousands of passengers booked seats on several airlines in hopes of getting on just one. then forgot to cancel. One major line had 600 no-shows in one city. This left space aplenty for stand-by passengers, who had the patience and courage to wait at drafty airports for any space available. Actually, most travelers got where they wanted to go, but many had to wind around circuitous routes on odd carriers, arrived frazzled...
MOSCOW, Jan. 4--The Soviet Union's cosmic rocket blazed an ever lengthening trail into space today and was reported gradually entering into orbit around the sun, with its radio still sending scientific information back to earth...
...building on stilts" actually will straddle the Brattle lot, allowing "a reasonable amount of space in the lot below to be used for public parking between the hours...