Word: stage
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stage in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Conductor Zubin Mehta got ready to play. Unlike most concertgoers, the audience fastened its attention not on the musicians but on Syn-Ket, a strange instrument set on a table in mid-stage...
...panderer's box, tempting men and women to act out the vices of flesh and mind that have always been part of humanity's lot. In graphic dumb show or coarse double-entendre, incest, rape, sodomy, masturbation, sadism and masochism are all depicted or evoked on stage...
Fire!, which ended Brandeis University's repertory season last week, scorches the stage with grief, fury, desire and despair. Framed in a set of huge bronze cubes appear the archetypal woman as mother, wife and slut and the arche typal man as son, father, husband and lover. They are not there to be joined to gether but to be rent asunder. "We must love one another or die," wrote W. H. Auden. Fire! proclaims that love is dead, God is dead, and man is dying. The playwright is a onetime actor now living in Europe who has adopted...
Rain Forest, composed this year, was performed in white, tight-fitting rags and tatters on a dead-black stage dec orated by Pop Artist Andy Warhol with 25 large pillows made of aluminum foil. Inflated with helium, they floated about among the dancers (and occasionally into the audience) while electronic music by David Tudor wailed and chattered...
...produced by two glands. The old silk tubes produced the inert part of the liquid while a special gland on the face secreted the enzyme itself. Kafatos substantiated these findings by proving that the moths could produce the enzyme even if the silk tubes were removed at an early stage of the pupa's development...