Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need not apologize for being only quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...
...this final tabloid is more to the credit of Lowell than the TCB. The violence itself is difficult to mis-stage, but it makes sense only if the production's narrow reading of the script is expanded. While racism is essential to Delano's behavior, the TCB fails to suggest that the Yankee would defend his (national) values against any threat--racial or not--not by reason or mercy, but by force. Benito Cereno is less a tragedy of malice or vengefulness--suggested by the Theater Company--than of American blindness...
...pictures of Richard Nixon's disembodied head that appear in newspapers might suggest that he is a fat man. The flapping jowls are unpleasant in the pictures, and even more horrifying when seen live. But when the fleshy head is connected to the rest of Nixon's body, the result is a grotesque caricature. Nixon is thin, almost frail. His head emerges from neckless, hunched shoulders; he looks like a younger Ed Sullivan. His feet dangle like a marionette's encased in tiny black shoes. His arms are held close to his side, except when they balloon out in stilted...
...music comment on society? To the extent that electronic sounds suggest the dissonances in everyday life? Perhaps. But, as Italian-born Composer Luciano Beno says, music "cannot lower the cost of bread. It is incapable of stopping wars, it cannot eradicate slums and injustice." Granting that much, Beno, a leading innovator of musical forms, refuses to accept the conventional barriers. He is appalled that composers today seem to regard music as an isolated phenomenon, created in a vacuum for the "greater glory of musical systems."" Never before, he says, "has the composer come so dangerously close to becoming an extraneous...
...that matter, John Cunningham, playing the young intellectual who hires Zorba to run the mine he has inherited, does little to suggest that he is Greek (which in this version, unlike the film, he is). But like Miss Karnilova, he compensates handily. As Niko, the man Zorba teaches how to live, Cunningham works hard to make his characterization more than the dull stiff it easily could be. He is, of course, helped out by the writing. Joseph Stein, the author of the show's book, establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view...