Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is still at the Loeb, they tell me, and I believe them. But since I know even less about the play than usual, I hesitate to recommend...
Throughout the early jazz flourish Harvard University revealed a sort of tin ear for syncopated sound. Even with the music inundating Boston, one of America's finer jazz towns, Harvard had failed to pick up the beat. It failed, that is, until University band director Tom Everett organized the Harvard jazz band three years ago. Since its inception, the band has provided a home for lonesome jazz men and big band enthusiasts. Within the last year it has shown admirable skill on the local mixer circuit, and at occasional concerts for other schools...
...Artenian has managed to pull off old tricks in new ways--for example, a strobe light chase scene in the castle of the Wicked Witch--almost steals the show. But if the special effects are original, the actors' costumes and accents aim to be just like the movie. The Tin Man is perfect down to the silver paint on his eyelids, and if the winged monkeys look a little like bellhops, well, they did in the movie...
There were some very strong voices in the cast and at their best they not only sung well but captured the familiar inflections of the original cast. Dorothy (Karen Preston), the Tin Man (Scott Miles), the Scarecrow (A1 Abrams), and the Cowardly Lion (Paul Hewitt) all played double parts--Miles played Jack Haley playing the Tin Man, Preston played Garland playing Dorothy, and so on. The Wicked Witch (Gwen Mason) and the Gatekeeper of the Emerald City (Andy Sutter) splendidly overplayed in the grand tradition. Toto was something of a problem; he was necessary at certain points in the plot...
...privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among others. (The New York Times...