Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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December 24--Christmas Eve. The Chileans did all their last minute shopping today, not in the handful of fancy stores, whose owners complain in the newspapers that business has fallen off, but from a horde of street vendors stretching five blocks who were selling things like home-made wooden toy trucks and paper party noisemakers. About a million kids bubbled through the streets with their parents...
...glacial unconcern for people as people. Ian Richardson, on the other hand, is too humane to treat Eliza as a phonetic retard. For him, she is an emotional event. Despite Shaw's impassioned lip service to English, he often treated it either as a handgun or a toy. Richardson treats it as the lineal descendant of Shakespeare. The text cannot always bear the weight of that sort of gravity and eloquence. As Eliza, Christine Andreas has the richness of voice that one associates with opera-and, alas, some of the same crimped acting range. She is a more warm...
...chief playing surface at the Olivier is a 40-ft.-in-diameter revolvable drum. This is a most ingenious toy. It can split into two half-moon elevators, with one half dropping to the basement while the other half comes up with a change of setting within seconds. They can be positioned at different heights to create a split-level stage. The third theater, the diminutive Cottesloe (capacity 400) is a simple box. Wood-lined, it is 75 ft. long, 47 ft. wide and 24 ft. high. Experimental in intent, the Cottesloe gives a director the choice...
...example--LaZebnik draws his chief inspiration from literary classics rather than from the contemporary American scene. His technique, like Tom Stop-pard's in Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead, is to abstract well-known characters from their original dramatic setting and place them in an absurd world where they toy with the conventions of language, and quest--unsuccessfully, of course--for the meaning of their existence...
...however, has the direct simplicity of a good toy. When one steps aboard the Ruckus Staten Island Ferry, it shimmies alarmingly; plumes of smoke, made of sheet metal, issue from its funnels and begin to waggle; a flock of seagulls suspended from the smoke begin to circle and dip. One succumbs at once to these lighthearted parodies of reality. But they are also extremely well researched. The Ruckus group spent months drawing in the streets of lower Manhattan, getting to know the buildings...