Word: styling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there. It was a mildly amusing but banal play, containing a certain topical message which could not, however, justify its inclusion in any repertory. The Copley players' second play, which closes tonight, is Shaw's "Heartbreak House," a much wiser and likelier choice, which they do in fine style...
...line with the motif of the play--"Congreve, modern style"--the couples are forming the 18th century gavotte pattern which immediately turns into a hash-up of the Charleston, shag genre. The music for the gavotte ties in with the musical scheme of the play, changing from the traditional patterns to 20th century harmonies and dissonance...
...these little reminders that one usually gets in seeing a translation from another tongue. Mr. Boyer's accent is the only Gallic touch, and that is evenly balanced by the whole personality of John Dall (the assassin), who is as Indiana as all get-out. Mr. Dall's acting style is not unlike James stewart's, and that of course is not bad at all. Joan Tetzel plays the confusing role of the wife with assurance. In the female division, however, she is topped by the performance of Anna Karen in the more clearly-defined role of a subordinate party...
Like the woman herself, Tallulah's theatrical style is a little more brightly colored than life, in the grand manner that makes modern naturalism seem flat and bloodless. "The boldness of her ease upon the stage," Critic John Mason Brown once wrote, "is on occasion as uncomfortable to watch as it is to see a guest making himself too much at home in another person's house...
Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...