Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the stage comes the joyful wallop of She Loves You (yeh, yeh, yeh). Behind the footlights, the four young New York musicians recruited for the venture-and rehearsed daily for nine months to master the music-play and sing about as well as mere Beatleoids might be expected...
...Harrison and Joe Pecorino as Lennon rely pretty much on their costumes and gestures for verisimilitude. But Mitch Weissman is a dead ringer for McCartney, not just in his stance and round face, but in the way he captures the pleasantly boyish manner in which Paul went about his stage business. Seated alone at the apron, accompanying himself on guitar, he sings Yesterday in a way that is totally unpretentious and touching...
Some of the resulting contrasts with Beatles songs work better than others. Strawberry Fields Forever, a drug song, is backed by masses of huge, drowsy faces, ballooning up over the stage as they smoke pot, looking as passive as numbed denizens of an opium parlor. Revolution, in which the Beatles dissociate themselves from violence, shows hooded Klansmen burning a cross, and a monk in self-immolation to protest the Viet Nam War, serenely praying as delicate traceries of flame sweep over him. The words of a famous Lennon love song about the need to make up after a spat...
...excerpt from the novel that ran last fall in American Review alerted readers to its incendiary subject: the June 19, 1953, execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In Coover's fiction, the convicted atomic bomb spies are transferred from the death house at Sing Sing to a public stage in Times Square for their execution. Word began circulating that several publishers had considered the manuscript and decided not to risk legal repercussions. The question naturally arose: What in this obstreperous age could be unfit to print...
...accepted in at least two cities, Toronto and Montreal, headquarters sent word that demonstrations are forbidden because they are undignified. Says John Konhaus, who represents the Maharishi's team of governors in the U.S.: "No one wants to become a circus performer. Our people are at a delicate stage of growing. We aren't out to teach flying. We are teaching full development of consciousness, and flying is a byproduct. It is like enjoying...