Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoffmann said the Corporation's current policy of conducting a case-by-case review of corporations active in South Africa lacks "precise guidelines" and is "really a hopeless task...
...material, the director must strike a fine balance between the innovative staging needed to connect the fragmentary images produced by the song lyrics and the use of conventional techniques to give the songs dramatic power. The Currier House production falls when the director, Steve Drury, fails in that task...
...individual performers, however, generally succeed in their primary task: singing the songs. Patty Woo as Nora, Tommy's mother, is especially strong in the classic, "Tommy Can You Hear Me/Smash the Mirro." She precisely evokes a bizarre combination of tender motherly concern and guilt-inspired anger. And as an extra bonus, Woo develops her character without overacting in the moments when she is not singing: a job the other actors find difficult to do. Bob Cunningham, as Nora's lover/accomplice Frank, sings adequately. Once away from the mike however, he presents either exaggerated venom or a sense of being...
...Allen in 1963, when the comic did his stand-up routine on a TV show where Schickel was book critic. In this week's issue, Schickel examines Allen's maturation as a film maker on the eve of his latest and perhaps greatest triumph, Manhattan. To this task Schickel brings his experience not only as critic, but also as film maker himself, having produced, directed or written 14 TV shows about film history, including last year's comedy compilation Funny Business. Declares Schickel: "My list of truly great film comedians is very short. It consists of Chaplin...
...first task of the new head of state: Whoever becomes the next Prime Minister has got a frightening job because the country is so confused and messed up, overrun by guns. It is a most challenging thing. The first government, I think, would need emergency powers to clean up the mess there is now, but such legislation would absolutely not be in order once the place is cleaned...