Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, disappointed space scientists were picking through telemetry attempting to discover what had gone wrong with the previously reliable Saturn. Preliminary analysis suggested that the two second-stage rocket engines might have been damaged during the separation of the first stage and that an electrical malfunction had prevented the third stage from restarting in orbit The misfires dimmed NASA's hope that the next Saturn shot would carry three astronauts into orbit. Instead, if further diagnosis shows that the rocket's ills are serious, it may be necessary to prove them cured in another unmanned...
...hero, non-artist protagonist and narrator of Brian Glanville's novel is all temperament and no talent. Geoff Barnes has won a medal for acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but he is no actor. The bed is his stage, and he is good for any number of encores. What he hankers for, yearns after, aspires toward but cannot reach is a more status-bearing life. He writes a play and it is a dud. He enters advertising and discovers he is no good at it. His only true emotion is self-pity; his agony is that...
...sure-fire audience baffler guaranteed to empty any theatre of ten per cent of its audience, 2001 is even now being re-edited by Kubrick to shorten the 165 minute length by 15-odd minutes. 2001, as it is being shown in Boston now, is in a transitional stage, the theatre currently exhibiting a spliceridden rough-cut while awaiting new prints from the MGM labs...
...discovery of the tool, and a technological progression inherent in the trip to Jupiter. The discovery of the monolith has preceded each advance, and with it the conjunction of the sun and moons of a given planet, as well as the presence of ape or human at a stage of development where they are ready to make the significant progression. The monolith, then, begins to represent something of a deity; for our own purposes, we will assume that, given the three conditions, the inert monolith actually teaches or inspires ape and man to make the crucial advance. Therefore, it becomes...
...finest moments of this production seems essentially noncommittal, it is because the production offers no further evidence upon which to base a judgement. Moss and Hamlin move to a confrontation with the text, a testing of the values of the playscript in terms of the demands of a real stage and a live audience, but sadly, the confrontation never takes place. The quality of the play remains an open question, not to be resolved on the Loeb stage. The production is finally a mixed bag, triumphant in many of its details, but so deeply divided against itself in conception that...