Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...timing of the missive, obviously designed to upstage the parliamentary debate, once again demonstrated the terrorists' skill at holding the country hostage to their game of psychological suspense. Said one police official grudgingly: "The Red Brigades' sense of stage direction is perfect." But if the underlying goal of Moro's ultra-leftist kidnapers was to sabotage Italy's democratic process and its tenuous political balance, they had failed, at least so far. The effect of the new challenge was a closing of ranks behind the government's position...
...century music by presenting the American premiere of Mary, Queen of Scots, a grand opera by Scottish Composer Thea Musgrave, 49. The choice was audacious. Mary calls for 13 principals and a 32-member chorus, a taxing assignment for V.O.A.'s limited resources and tiny (28 ft. deep) stage. V.O.A. gambled and won-to prolonged applause...
...entire cast is first-rate. The producers were smart to turn to accomplished stage actors rather than the Hollywood Squares refugees who usually populate network miniseries. Marvin Chomsky's direction, while more efficient than inspired, is well above typical TV standards, and some of his images kick the audience sharply in the gut. He shows nude women and children marching silently into the showers; his camera takes in the piles of corpses in the ditches at Babi Yar. Unlike routine cops-and-robbers TV violence, which is too impersonal and stylized to move an audience, these sequences have...
Garfield works hard, not to say desperately in this role, but the film's writers do not develop his relationship with his team beyond the whining and hectoring stage, and there is nothing touching or comic in their pointless dialogue...
...lead in the drama, Dean Rosovsky, is probably not suffering from any stage fright as he thinks about the approach of the final vote. The Faculty, after all, was cooperative enough in its meeting this week to approve two amendments endorsed by the Faculty Council. No one at that meeting had much to say in opposition to the Core plan...