Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this essentially rural set fails to provide a wholly satisfactory backdrop for the scenes of court and town, it works wonders in transforming the less-than-congenial dining hall atmosphere into a proper stage. The use of an elaborate unit of limited flexibility benefits house theatre tremendously, even when it makes certain transformations impossible. The costumes demonstrate similar virtues: none are overlavish, all are colorful and consistent with the whole, and all show good period spirit. A surprising number of principals look handsome and easy in potentially difficult clothes...
...erratic in his attempts to use stage business in harness with Shakespeare's verbal wit or verbal wisdom. Often he finds success in pointing a line with a gesture, but sometimes too, his compositions are simply too full of movement for good focus. On a few occasions, he has literally obscured potentially funny or significant dialog by drawing the audience's attention to some simultaneous comic bit. In a single instance, he shows an excess of reverence to the lines, freezing an admirably raucous forest banquet to a tableau, while Jaques (Kenneth Tiger) puts the "Seven Ages of Men" through...
...reporter for the paper needs a hearing aid," said Adlow. "I use those words only in select conversations...
...What social protest justifies words like these?" countered Adlow. "They didn't use these words in the French Revolution." Many heads nodded and rolled in the audience...
...Eastern Affairs, and Robert J. McCloskey, State Department spokesman, have presented long lists of statements by the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong opposing United Nations intervention. Furthermore, the Administration claims that the Vietcong are not really sincere in their desire for peace, that they only seek to use an invitation to the Assembly in order to lobby for their cause among U.N. members...