Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Park, to surface at a press conference in Seoul last week nine months after he fled from Washington to London to avoid questioning. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency presumably arranged Park's flight from London to Seoul to keep him out of Jaworski's way, and then stage-managed his press conference as well. As one of Park's old Washington cronies observed, "He said not a word in Washington or London. Then he gets to Seoul and holds a press conference. You figure...
...never did. Not really. His later stage shows were full of intentional self-parody; he took to telling audiences "this lip used to curl easier." Of late he made his entrance at concerts to the thundering strains of Thus Spake Zarathustra. He could still rock out when he wanted to cut loose with a fine, jagged version of Hound Dog, but he seemed increasingly bored with his music and more absorbed in the lavish trappings of his own celebrity...
...years, his only forays out into the real world were concert tours that were carefully insulated. The routine was usually the same: private plane to private limo to back entrance of hotel to specially cleared elevator to penthouse suite; then, after a while, off to the concert, onto the stage, back to the hotel, then to the airport. Reality never intruded, except when the schedule faltered. In a 1972 documentary, Elvis on Tour, there is a quick scene of Elvis, stranded on an airport runway, waiting for the gangway of his private plane to roll out. He is caught...
...lines with a parallel in both versions, Judas now says, "Oh what cursed gold I received, turning me into a traitor." The 19th century text goes, "Oh cursed money I received from you, the Jewish rot, the scum." Schwaighofer has also added other new elements: a loudspeaker system and stage lights for nighttime performances...
Then, in 1970, when he was standing on the stage of the El Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, something snapped and, in Pryor's words, he "went crazy." With a packed audience in front of him, he walked off the stage. What had happened was that he realized he was not Cosby, the smooth, controlled comic of the cerebrum. He was, if anyone, Lenny Bruce, the angry, violent screamer from the acid gut. Pryor changed his act, bringing it back in spirit to Peoria's black ghetto and the mean streets all over the U.S. He started...