Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeps the air free of dramatic pauses the dialogue has the porcelain sparkle that is Pinter's cache. But from time to time the actors forget they are in a Pinter play and try to make us understand what they are feeling. When that happens torpor floods the stage and it seems that the puzzling plot and symbolism just aren't worth the trouble...
Last week the battling Berrys left Manhattan for their annual hitch at the Vienna State Opera. Met audiences consoled themselves with the knowledge that the couple will be back on stage next season in a new production of Wagner's Die Walküre, which calls for them to square off and fight it out as a pair of unhappily married gods...
Breadwinner. Vivien's physical domination of the stage comes from matchless body control, the result of ballet training, which she began at the age of three with her mother, a dance teacher. She had no drama coaching except for elocution lessons to correct her Manchester accent. She met Pinter, who himself started as an actor, while touring the provinces with a Shakespearean troupe. Their marriage in 1956 gave Pinter a sure breadwinner in the house and enabled him to try playwriting. Today they own a splendid five-story Georgian town house overlooking Regent's Park in London...
...First prize goes to this three-stage pre-fabricated blizzard," said Gerald Piel, publisher of Scientific American. A sinister man, later identified as a Boeing agent, bent for a close look at Ken Chang's creation, winner of the Oregami division of Quincy House's paper airplane contest...
Suspense built unbearably in the duration contest after the first competitor's plane curled insolently around a light and spiralled slowly to the floor. Would his :5.2 time be beaten? It seemed impossible until Sanford Rugens stepped to the stage and with a graceful hop flung his hand high...