Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind-the-scenes meetings set the stage for Sadat's initiative...
...Arab enemies, largely through Mossad, the intelligence service that operated as a sort of underground diplomatic corps for the Jewish state. TIME has learned that these contacts between Israel and a number of Arab states, notably Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, bolstered Sadat's confidence and set the stage for his Peace Initiative. The following narrative is based on TIME'S reporting from several of the nations involved...
...Worse, Psychoanalyst Gould applies a heavy dose of Freudian pessimism: every child is born with an "insatiable biological drive" to have what it cannot have, the total attention and love of its mother. The failure to satisfy this drive, he believes, produces anger and protective devices that dominate every stage of adult development. Says Gould: "Mental life seems to have an unconscious goal-the elimination of the distortions of childhood consciousness and its demons and protective devices that restrict our life...
...obtrusive things he has his cast do. Touches like the ladies' fans, which they snap open and shut in precise timing with their lines, and the gestures of the fops and dandies underscore the contrived nature of the life Wycherly satirizes. In the first scene, everyone who walks on stage stops to preen in a full-length mirror, immediately setting the tone for what follows. Very little is chancy or slipshod when it comes to blocking or movement...
...country wife. She literally saves the second and third acts as she camps and mugs her way out of her husband's jealous clutches and into Horner's lecherous arms. Venora puts on a very funny rural English accent and manages to be consistent about it, and her stage presence is excellent. She steals just about every scene she's in, especially when she dresses up as a man to see the town and ends up with a dozen oranges stuffed down her shirt...