Word: stage
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Sometime during those turbulent years, it occurred to Luce that her gift for strong opinions and withering bons mots might actually be best suited to another stage, and in 1942 she was elected Connecticut's first Congresswoman. Inevitably, those last two syllables dogged her in the largely all-male preserve of Washington, and her attempts to be taken seriously were not assisted by a typical poll that crowned her "the second best pair of legs in the country...
That same year, she returned to the public stage as Washington's emissary to Italy, the first American woman to be named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead...
...hours the stage -- caked with earth, puddled with water and transformed into a dusty plain in primeval India -- resonates with such ritual images, haunting metaphors, aphoristic dialogue and spiritual searching. The event, viewable in a marathon day or in three installments, is The Mahabharata, the most ambitious production yet by Peter Brook, 62, the visionary elder statesman among stage auteur directors. A French version originated in Avignon in 1985, then played to sold-out houses in Paris in 1986. The English-language premiere transfers this week from the Los Angeles Festival, where it played in a cavernous studio...
...reached out for an arresting style that is suited to both his story and his superbly compressed way with dialogue. Shooting on location in Seattle, he and Cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia have used the city to wonderfully dislocating effect. Indeed, they have transformed Seattle, lighting it like a giant stage set, a succession of false fronts for false behavior...
...stage of open animosity has long since passed, says Storck. People realize that Wright's melancholic work is "not going to be Chamber of Commerce material. They may not understand it all, but they're not upset by it." Wright rarely ventured home to test his luck. He could reach the town best from a distance, through the acid of memory...