Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snarl of an engine splits the stillness. Out of the half-light, the projected silhouette of a Piper Cub glides ghostlike across a side wall. Suddenly, sound track and silhouette become a screaming, whooshing jet that dives at the stage and disintegrates with a shattering roar in the midst of six musicians. The drummer roars back with a thumping beat. The guitarists twang away lustily. And, momentum building, voices wailing and all systems gogo, the Jefferson Airplane blasts...
Where Murphy needed help was in assembling the sculpture. Actress Anna Bing Arnold (who performed in the 1930s under the stage name of Anna Kostant) contributed Anna Mahler's show-bizzy Tower of Masks for the entrance to Macgowan Hall. In 1964 the U.C.L.A. Arts Council and Regent Norton Simon bought Lipchitz' Song of the Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with...
After the customary palaver with friendly Indians and hostile white men, the avengers finally descend on the villains' "war wagon," an armor-plated, heavily guarded stage full of gold dust. With the help of the nitroglycerin and a band of Kiowas, the villains are killed, the wagon pillaged-and the loot lost when runaway horses spill barrels of it over the landscape. At film's end, Wayne salvages sacks worth $100,000 -enough, presumably, to keep him going until his next western...
...what does it want? The theatre is an inherently social medium: it sends out an edited and ritualized mirror image of the society which puts it on and watches it. There is a running dialogue between the stage and audience--which manifests itself technically in the actors gauging the velocity of their performance against a specific audience's reactions...
...able to change this very much remains for future generations to decide.) It is an easily observed phenomenon that by sharing in a theatrical passion, audiences frequently feel relieved. As Brecht pointed out in 1930, this sort of theatre, "involves the spectator in the action on the stage" but "uses up his will...