Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY mixes a technique of Chinese theater with stage business from vaudeville. It is strictly a one-joke play-about the goings-on when the lights go off -but the joke works. Peter Shaffer is the playwright, Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page the leading actors...
Last week the band capped off the first Los Angeles Jazz Festival with an electrifying performance that brought 4,000 jazz buffs in U.C.L.A.'s Pauley Pavilion to their feet, cheering "More! More!" The trim, bearded Ellis lunged about the stage whipping the music to a demonic pitch, molding the arrangements on the spot by cuing his men in and out with shouts and hand signals. Occasionally, he pivoted and loosed a flock of high-flying notes from a specially made four-valve trumpet that enables him to play 24 tones in an octave, rather than the usual twelve...
...CHEMICALS. Resolving the major deadlock that threatened to wreck the negotiations, delegates settled on a two-stage tariff cut. In the first step, the U.S. will cut its levies 42%, as against 25% to 30% for the Common Market. In the second stage, both sets of tariffs, with a few exceptions, would drop at least to half their present level. This phase, however, will go into effect only if Congress repeals the controversial system by which duties on organic benzenoid chemicals-notably dyes, sulfa drugs, plastics and pesticides-are based on their American selling price, which results in tariffs...
Although Barrault's and Gabin's performances contribute, as does the magnificent photography (note how in French Cancan, Renoir recreates his father's Impressionist pastels), the real greatness of these two films is perhaps undefinable. As the characters move toward one or another stage of self-realization, Renoir's films take on an even larger, universal significance. His spirit, his ability to create characters through use of clear, almost divine, light give his films an aura of undeniable truth, as if he were a Biblical prophet, telling us the word...
...prepared statement, saying the administration wished to "carry on a dialogue with the students." Then asked whether he would drop the charges, Pierce said, "I'm not a lawyer, I don't know the law.... I don't know what's going to happen," and walked off the stage...