Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger sense, the Chicago production showed a remarkable degree of vitality in the party-and in the political machinery on display. The symbols of ward politics waved like Bourbon banners against a tide of reform, but the party did stage a convention that was more open and more deliberative than any in memory. The passionless play put on by the Republicans in Miami Beach, by comparison, was a mere ratification process. Admittedly, the presidential nomination was never in serious question last week. But the party did engage in a candid, spirited debate on the Viet Nam question...
...Instead, he had coffee and cake at Daughter Luci's red brick ranch-style house in suburban Austin, Texas. Lady Bird and Grandson Lyn were there, as well as two busloads of newsmen. "I am not talking to the convention," he told the reporters, lest he be accused of stage-managing the affair. "I don't have anyone reporting to me other than Walter Cronkite...
...days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
...bashful giggles followed by a friendly peck. The actors claimed that Japanese are more inhibited in this department than Americans, but Clurman demonstrated with binoculars that this was not really so; a glance through the glasses at lovers in a Tokyo park convinced the cast that their stage kisses had been too tame. The uniformly black-haired actors wanted to wear wigs of different colors to make them look more like Americans, but Clurman vetoed the wiggy look. Only Noboru Na-kaya, in the central role of Hickey, was given a shock of red hair...
...bare room that are the boundaries of his life. Within them he creates a solo performance of unbearable power. The shiny eyes dance behind rimless glasses, the arguments with God become a grudge fight, consciousness and the dream state mix until the tragedy plays itself out upon the bare stage of a wrecked mind...