Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flourish while the crowd cheered. Ah, yes. When a girl's been a hit in show biz, it's hard to settle for a ho-hum-drum routine. That's why Katherine Reid, 66, who in the 1920s made quite a name for herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly and do guest shots on TV shows "walking on a red carpet after they show...
...director too, Babe has enfolded his vision in the mot trustworthy terms--spectacle: balloons erupting from the stage to stick all evening to the ceiling; Dance: a ring of slaves and master circling faster and faster to the chorus's "Oles;" Music: fragrant and powerful songs (though the singing was a bit ragged opening night...
Slowly, everyone began to leave. It appeared for a few moments as if there would be no arrests, no confrontation. But it was just the first stage of the agreed-upon mobile tactics. A crowd of 75 or so left the Common, but returned 15 minutes later. At 3:40 a.m., a line of police cars and paddy-wagons formed a few hundreds yards from the crowd...
...splashiest and most fanatical part of the Who's act is their other pair, Roger Daltrey, singer, dressed in a clinging white T-shirt and silken white pants and Peter Townshend, lead guitar. The mind-rape these two pull off on stage has to be experienced to be believed...
Peter Townshend in performance is a tall sleek figure with jabbing thighs. He whips to his left--slips forward--darts further forward--slams his bent foot down on the stage floor to a chord on the guitar played upward with his hand at the end of a complete circle of his whole arm. He retains complete control of his music though and never seems to miss guitar cues...