Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradually, the Hair people filter up onstage, and the show is beginning. Dionne and company begin singing Aquarius, and the tribe flies energetically into life. Never losing momentum, they transform the marvelously entertaining evening's mood intermittently into moments of intense realism that clevate the play from delightful musical into very serious social commentary...
...special Vatican envoy found that only 15 firmly support the military regime, while 40 have joined Archbishop Câmara in publicly opposing the government; most of the other 190 lean toward the left. Some bishops are heeding the growing number of rebel priests who insist that Catholicism can transform society-and save its soul-only by embracing revolution, even a Marxist variety. "We expected revolutionary movement, but never anticipated that it would build up to such intensity at the very heart of the church," says Msgr. Joseph Gremillion, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace...
...deal of lively Method movement. Here, if the pace was present, the voices were lacking. Dynamic Soprano Teresa Stratas fell sick and had to be replaced at the last minute. Veteran Tenor Richard Tucker had neither the warmth nor the fire to create dislike in the audience and then transform it into pity. Only Baritone Sherrill Milnes as the deformed Tonio had the strong, rich reserves of voice and tone that can raise Pagliacci from the deadly...
...Such a fragile theme could easily have been ground into pulp, but Salter is a film maker of discretion. He includes too many scenes of motoring and picnicking, but he has a laconic facility with dialogue and an eye for the small gesture that can transform a scene from an actor's project into reality. Sam Waterston is a superb young naturalistic performer, Robie Porter is convincing and human in an unsympathetic role, and Charlotte Rampling, all angles and sensuality, is that rare thing, a beautiful woman who can also fairly be called an actress...
...Czechoslovak theologian and proponent of Christian-Communist entente; of a heart attack; in Prague. For years, Soviet Communism had no stronger Protestant advocate than Hromádka. Even so, he argued that, because Marxist-Leninist doctrine did not answer the ultimate questions of life, Christianity might eventually transform Communism. But the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 dashed all his hopes. "My deepest feeling is of disillusionment, sorrow and shame," he wrote, before resigning from the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, which he had founded...