Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levin is not worried about the credit question. "We already have the students with talent and time. They don't need credit, they need guidance. "He suggested a parallel to the Nieman Fellows program. As Levin conceives of them, the fellows in theatre would "consult" informally with students and conduct noncredit seminars...
...cast of The Roar of the Greasepaint-The Smell of the Crowd sings, dances, shouts, and seats its way through two and a half hours of unutterable nonsense. That's why I felt sorry for the actors and actresses in this musical; they pour so much talent and energy into a show that's not worth the effort...
...been lost in the passing of a stable old way of life-and what was gained and not gained by the new. This equation is viewed with neither regret nor reproach. The story is principally told through its varied, vivid characters. Reb Meshulam Moskat is a patriarch with a talent for victory, who manages his business and his family with a high, old-fashioned hand. But not without opposition. "I spin and I spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons-in-law. It's cost me millions...
This could have been an elegant and amusing production. The talent was there. And even as it is, it's enjoyable. But Schwartz has cluttered the show with all-executed tricks. Gilding his lily, he makes it droop...
...this abrupt shift of mood, what began as a polished Gallic satire of bourgeois sex and morality suddenly becomes inflamed with black Spanish fury. Director Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana) is the powerful talent whose vision dominates this corrosive, meticulously detailed film based on the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel resets the story in the 1920s and tips Mirbeau's well-aimed shafts with poison. But in the end, Diary seems inconclusive, a series of vivid sketches only partially held together by Buñuel's enlightened misanthropy...