Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, Minahan, the director, does a good job pacing the show, executing well the transitions between serious and comic moments. The scene where Georgie tries to orchestrate his first wife's departure ("Give it the Cohan touch...Play the sad scene against a happy background," he tells her) is particularly effective. Joe Mobilia's clever sets, all emerging from a revolving backdrop, simplify Minahan's task by smoothing the transitions between scenes...
...great opera company in Boston, a city that did not really want one. Operating in what a colleague describes as "a wilderness of gymnasiums, hockey rinks, old movie houses, an indoor track and a converted flower stall," Caldwell produced operas, including difficult ones that no one else would touch, and staged them ingeniously (she had to, given her cramped quarters). Working day and night as her own conductor, administrative boss, stage director, talent hunter, principal researcher and fund raiser, she has become a symbol of the vigorous growth of opera in dozens of cities around the U.S. She is also...
...Agatha Christie murder mystery about eight people snow-bound in a manor house. The play, which has been running continuously in London for 23 years or so, is hardly weighty intellectual fare. The Leverett House Arts Society production, however, boasts a fine cast, directed with a comic touch by Evangeline Morphos, who did Arms and the Man at the Loeb last spring. Performances in the Leverett House Old Library, November...
...first to accept the inevitable, followed shortly after that by her two natural children, Mary Ellen, 19, and John, 17. But Joseph Quinlan kept talking about a miracle. His own parish priest, the Rev. Thomas Trapasso, said, "I was beginning to fear that Joe was not in touch with reality." The priest had to persuade him that Catholic theology does not require that life be preserved indefinitely by artificial and extraordinary means (see box, page 58). In early September, Quinlan testified, he gave up. "In my own mind, I had already resolved this spiritually through my prayers...
...other, suggests how far science must go before it fully understands the activities it has recorded. In this sequence, cells from the heart muscle lie in a culture dish, each continuing to beat at its own rhythm until it comes into contact with another cell. Once their edges touch, the two cells mysteriously begin to beat in unison...