Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dolls, porcelain and bright. Cosindas' trip to Greece in 1960 started her career as a creative photographer, but she has come a long way from the conception of drama that "Greek Lady, 1959" shows. Her recent portraits have left black and white tragedy for what seems a puppet stage. Her precisely-composed arrangements disconcert. A personage like Vionnet may be thought of in terms of pure design, color, fashion and grooming, but it somehow reduces Imogen Cunningham to see her elfed in this very miniature lens. Ezra Pound's hands, large and blurred between his knees in front...
Betty and Adolf, as they call each other on and off stage, have worked together since 1938, when they began performing with Judy Holliday at a then-obscure club in New York called the Village Vanguard. "It was very haphazard," Comden reminisced backstage last weekend. "We all thought of the Vanguard as a stopgap. We kept on looking for work," Green came in, almost on cue--the two seem to collaborate even on their conversation: "Suddenly all the reviews, all the seven papers there were in the City, started saying great things. People began coming from all over...
...National Research Council concluded in a report released last week that the fluorocarbon gases used as propellants for spray products deplete the ozone layer. It is that shield which protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's potentially deadly ultraviolet rays. The report sets the stage for an eventual ban on the sprays...
...this undisciplined enthusiasm, Jones has also been mentioned in the same breath with Tennessee Williams and William Inge, whose early plays found first production more than 20 years ago at the Dallas Theater Center. Jones himself suggests other comparisons. While playing the stage manager in Our Town, he confesses he sensed an ambition to become West Texas' Thornton Wilder...
Class Act. As a performer, Gary Stewart's special attraction is the energetic diversity he displays when given a beer and a stage. Hunched over the piano, a spindly Ichabod partial to wide-brimmed swamper hats, Stewart invites everybody to get loose to something like his own Hank Western, with a weakness for "any good-lookin' woman, any kind of booze." The delivery, in a tight, nasal tenor voice, is as seasoned as the inside of an old spittoon, but heartfelt. Says Stewart: "It's all a poor man's music that talks about troubles...