Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to all the little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy toy elephant. But when they leave her at home, she pleads abuse to the neighbors, who fall for it and prepare her a special gourmet care package.) Truffaut does...
...sung by Shattuck and Dineen, and "Unless There's Love," done by Dineen alone--are savory versions of often overdone pieces. Shattuck, a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory, sings magnificently from her first note on; physically small, she is vocally head and shoulders above anyone else on stage...
...spectators in New York's Madison Square Garden learned this lesson last Thursday night when Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, who has been playing basketball since his embryonic stage, became "confused" and sank a seven-foot jump shot into the wrong basket just as the game ended. So what, you ask, as long as Monroe's beloved Knicks still won the game? Ah, ignorance is bliss...
Peering deep into the womb of a pregnant woman, doctors have succeeded in exploring and filming-at a remarkably early stage of development-the secret world of the living human embryo. The results of their efforts are the dramatic highlight of an hour-long CBS television special, The Miracle Months, which will be broadcast on March 16 at 8 p.m. E.S.T. Written by Physician-Author Robert E. Fuisz, Miracle Months is a moving, prime-time tribute to recent spectacular progress in prenatal care-advances that enable doctors to salvage many pregnancies for which there was once little or no hope...
Only one symbolic moments occurs in the play. At the close of the first act, anarchist demonstrators toss a brick through a window of the presidential palace, landing with a resounding thud upon the stage. This may be taken as a metaphor for The President; it is about as interesting and it lands with a similar thud...