Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best signals yet for his troubled leadership. Along with his Bible, he carried to the Middle East a new sensitivity to the world's historical eddies. He displayed an eloquence that until now he has resolutely choked. He got tired, irritated, frightened. He showed it all, a soothing touch of realism that has rarely been allowed. And in his success, caution and true humility replaced visions of the millennium and interviews with the network anchormen...
Sellars seems to have let his actors develop their own interpretations, chosing to focus on creating a series of stage pictures that reinforce their interpretations. His monumental style, however, is least effective at the very beginning, where a touch more continuity and less mannerism might help the actors introduce themselves and the play's refrains. As it is, the opening portrays the prosaic daily life of the Prozorov household and friends with jerkiness. Perhaps Chekhov intended a sense of alienation from the start, but that shouldn't make the actors themselves look uncomfortable on stage, as they...
...white tunic with a heraldic device on the front. Shazzam! It's Disco Superman! The house howled at every word. Berti played it to the hilt, flourishing his cape and pouncing about the stage like Batman, delivering his lines with Marvel Comics bravado. As comedy this bogus touch was great, but as Shakespeare it seemed rather strained and out of sorts with the prevailing traditionalism. Lacey apparently decided to cast continuity aside and go for a big, bargain-rate laugh with an expendable character...
With one second left and the score 4-3 against her, she faked to one side of Sudikoff's body and attacked the other for a touch that had, apparently, tied the score. But after persuasion from the Dartmouth coach and the surrounding crowd, the director reversed his decision, saying the fake had come before the "halt", but the touch after...
...history. For two companies-Chrysler and American Motors-the struggle could become a matter of survival. All the manufacturers are straining their technical, financial and managerial resources to the limit in an upheaval that will be felt at many levels of business and to one degree or another will touch the lives of almost all Americans. Says Chrysler Chairman John Riccardo: "In the next six years the industry faces a total revolution...