Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit that "Chairman Mao and Comrade Liu Shao-chi and a few other leaders have achieved the stage of perfection." Liu even opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers bloom" theory and-in Communist terms-was proved right. He annoys Soviet officials by telling them that Russians are not capable of understanding China, and displays the contempt of an old street agitator for the commanding...
Ulanova displayed a mastery so complete that technique itself seemed to disappear, letting emotion flood the stage. In the first act Ulanova was a shy girl, trembling with anguish and expectation on the edge of maturity. In a remarkable series of movements, expressions and gestures, she mimed her unfolding first love, with its joys and terrors wavering through her like a fever. At first as tremulous in her movements as a butterfly fluttering from a chrysalis, she broadened her movements as the act progressed into ardently flowing figures that beautifully and simply evoked her stirring feelings. After her betrayal...
...this oversight was remedied. Now tourists, folklore specialists and art lovers alike can see in a handsome 240-ft.-long gallery the Old West in all its glory, ranging from an Indian brave's buckskin jacket with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated by the W. R. Coe Foundation along with a $500,000 trust fund to help maintain...
...Town and the Charles Playhouse production of it perform the difficult artistic trick of dealing with sentimental subjects without being sentimental. And the Charles Playhouse, with its Grange Hall intimacy and its large, informal stage extending out into the audience is truly an ideal setting for this most American of plays...
...acrobatics, and since audiences nowadays expect more from an operatic plot, considerable attention was focused on the opera's "dramatic" element at yesterday afternoon's performance. Besides, card-playing and the consumption of ices between arias are impractical in Agassiz; therefore it was imperative that something transpire on the stage...