Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a chatter-and-patter revue by two stage personalities, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who might have come through the looking glass. They guide their devotees through a wonderland of whimsy, where, among other things, a nearsighted armadillo falls in love with a tank...
...child is aware of the highly volatile nature of a pressurized, 100% oxygen environment. I find it inconceivable that a fire-extinguishing and emergency-hatch system capable of being instantaneously triggered at any stage of the countdown was not ordered into the design of the Apollo capsule. It is true that "accidents will happen," particularly in research programs such as this-but they are excusable only if due to causes unknown or unforeseeable. This wasteful tragedy is made even more poignant by the fact that its prevention was well within our present technological capability...
...created a socialist bureaucracy that would give even Moscow the shivers. The distribution system, handled by military men with no economic experience, distributes almost nothing. While warehouses bulge with goods that often rot or rust away, store managers are faced with too many customers and too little merchandise. They stage lotteries, giving successive winners the privilege of buying whatever is left on the shelves, which is not always what they started out to buy. In Mandalay, some Catholic priests entered one of the local lotteries, only to win the opportunity to buy some women's sheer blouses...
...sound all will tumble in. Each speaks a private language, packed with private symbols as inscrutable to the other characters as to us. It is a measure of their cardboard substance that we are not surprised if any one of them gives a silly giggle and drops to the stage, dead as cold toast...
...play that kind of character an actor must forget each line after he speaks it. He must forget how he has been hurt and not imagine how he will be hurt. He is obliged to have a stage presence without having a firm stage personality...