Word: tram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular trouble conveying the blunt, even coarse speech of Masha, but she has not sufficiently plumbed the poetic sensitivity that lies beneath. It is not a bad performance; it just leaves a great deal yet to be explored. The problem of Masha's and Vershinin's drum-roll exchanges ("Tram-tam-tam ... tra-ra-ra"), the shortest mutual love scene ever written for the stage, has been effectively solved by substituting complementary phrases from the aria "All men should once with love grow tender" in Act II of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin...
These gyrations seem not so much foolish as pathetic when viewed next to Bruno's twilight world. As he declines, the perception that life is a kind of dream through which most men move like drunken tram conductors struggles in his mind with his fading recollections of the flesh. Bruno recalls the anguish of his early loves, his failure with his son, and cannot keep the distant memory of these trumpery things, even now, from shredding his heart...
...film studio, then they want to go to Disneyland. So he is giving them a Disneyland of a film studio. He is spending $50 million on tourist facilities alone, including a projected 1,800-room "hotel of the stars." Visitors ride around in a three-car surrey-topped tram, getting near views of miscellaneous Munsters and other TV personalities. Under glass in the office tower they can see the computer which Wasserman uses in order to complete cost control and time factor studies, and run his studio like a good machine tool factory...
Total Anonymity. Even though the Times has moved into a $13.5 million new plant, its 300 editorial staffers still work in a cathedral atmosphere where everyone whispers, coats stay on, the copy glides overhead in miniature tram-cars and the library is called the Intelligence Room. Times newsmen also work in anonymity. On the ground that only the Times, and none of its members, should make thunder, the paper has never used a byline...
...arriving in the first chapter, you find the author still polishing ashtrays and setting out dishes of salted nuts. But Irish farce is not a sitdown affair; it is the falling-down kind, and must begin on time or a little earlier. It is Good Intentions missing his tram and improving the hour by having a few innocent drinks with his fine friends Sedition and Salvation, and ending up, all amaze, knee-walking in the dark of the moon...