Word: twittered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hush fell over this assemblage and all that could be heard was the chirping of a bewildered bird--"How well the silvery voice of the warbler with its joyous and innocent twitter blends with the fragrance of the lily of the valley...
...musical numbers are quantum leaps apart in quality and content. In the first act, the dumbness of the transitions probably can't be--and certainly weren't--covered up. After the title song, the women chorus members are forced to squirm off stage in a clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been rather slowly introduced in the first act, the denouement melodically takes place at zany, breakneck speed. Even so, the second...
Lusterman and Norman don't possess Chassler's presence, her power to absorb an audience with each slight twitter. The two perform well in the idiom of Chassler's movement and occasionally hit upon the nexus of subjectivity/objectivity. Yet neither command Chassler's magic...
...eyes worked much better. When Papageno learns he will not be allowed to enter the Order, he merely shrugs his shoulders and says that instead of wisdom he'd much prefer a glass a wine. He does get his Papagena; they are the picture of bourgeois happiness as they twitter and kiss and plan a large family...
...once the cameras get rolling. Charisma, which is his excuse, is based on double takes and spiraling eyes and the ticks and flutters that make a face interesting, as long as the role doesn't demand any grey matter behind it. But Charles Bronson-his features wouldn't twitter a fraction if he were hit by a truck, yet he dominates this picture like the best of them...