Word: thespians
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Arab audiences revel in mellifluous oratory. Last week Egyptian President Anwar Sadat rewarded the Arab Socialist Union Congress with a first-class example of it. Mopping his brow often in a sultry hall, modulating his voice from whisper to thespian holler, Sadat delivered a largely off-the-cuff speech that was twice as long as any address delivered by his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and every bit as dramatic. Excerpts...
...know, there is no technical term for the fear some directors have of opening scenes, but Jonathan Miller has the most noteworthy case of it around today. The English physician turned thespian has once again axed the opening scene of a Shakespearean production, plunging right into the middle of the action without preface. This year's Oxford-Cambridge Shakespeare Company offering, Julius Caesar, like last year's Hamlet, is a stripped-down version, with several scenes, excessive staging, and lavish costuming all done away with...
...film's most telling episode, a subject is asked to group unfamiliar words under two headings, clean and dirty. Fugue, she decides is a clean, but titillate and thespian are both dirties. Thus, the film implies, words cannot be untainted if the mind is unwashed. It is the unintended moral of the movie. Sexually, What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? is a clean. Ethically, it is a dirty...
...cast as large as that of The Fairy Queen there is bound to be a bit of talent, and the Lowell House production is no exception. On the the Thespian side, elocution reigns supreme in Linda DeCoff as Hermia, while rich voices can be heard from Margaret Santi (Titania) and Ray Healy (Oberon), both of whom, though lacking subtlety, look every bit the patricians they are supposed to be. Mary King Austin plays Helena as a dumb blond with her hair done up--a sort of cross between Judy Holiday and Sandy Dennis...
...Visit from St. Nicholas and Silent Night while a 22-man orchestra and ten-man choir make moan in the background. As for that craving, it often finds outlet in his campaign to make the marigold the national flower, though Ev confessed that he had been nursing his thespian urgings for years, had in fact decided on a stage career when he was just a tad but "my mother wouldn...