Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hence the precarious positions of big-stage governors like Democrat Edmund Brown of California and liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Since 1958, each has had his name tied to controversial, progressive state policies -- once that often alienated self-interested blocs that had aided in their original victories. In addition, each has tried to confront the racist issue of "crime in the streets" without much success. Time and partisan bickering have dissipated the aura of freshness, novelty, and change that accompanied their ascent to the highest state of fice...
...never looked forward to nothing; I always wanted to be something," mused Brooklyn's Barbra Streisand last week. "Now I want to be nothing." That is because motherhood is calling, and so Streisand is quitting the stage temporarily. The baby that she refers to as "Kid" is due in December, after which she will report to Hollywood to begin filming Funny Girl. But before taking her maternity leave, Barbra had to say goodbye to her worshipers with a concert tour of stadiums in Newport, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Chicago...
Modified Mia. The windup last week took place in Chicago's all-but-unplayable Soldier Field. The stage was plant ed on the 10-yd. line. The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...
...Idol will be remembered, if at all, as the movie that gave a second-stage lift to the career of Michael Parks. As Adam in John Huston's movie version of The Bible, Parks wears little more than foliage. In this befuddled study of London's dashing young set, he vigorously fleshes out an even barer role as a beatnik U.S. artist...
Mayer's Woyzeck is a veritable diamond in the rough: the set looks unfinished, the lighting is often unfortunately absent, the stage hands scramble conspicuously for the props during scene transitions, sometimes the actors don't seem aware that other actors are on stage with them. But it doesn't matter. When all is said and done, Woyzeck is an exciting and a fascinating show, one which transcends its technical handicaps easily. The best in it is Mayer's best and that's saying plenty...