Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water bottles that elude his grasp and ropes that foil his attempts to hang himself. The character is a kind of vaudeville Sisyphus, and one can thank Beckett for the small favor that the playlet lasts only ten minutes. Not I lasts 15. It is the seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much of anything. Only the woman's spotlighted mouth can be seen, along with a huge, silent druidic figure who flaps his arms from time...
...DEATHDANCE becomes many dances Edgar's twirling his sword and locking up heels whole his wife plays "The Entry of the Boyars", the staggering onset of his fits and above all the comic verbal dance from mockery to self-deception, stomping in the process on as many toes as possible. Under F.M. Kimball's direction, comic tension links the opposing profiles of actors or inhabits Edgar's sickly stare over the audience's heads At the beginning of each short sequence--signalled by a bell, and announced by the actors as, say, "Round Number 4: Alice Philosophizes"--the actors take...
...various photographs to suggest more intangible qualities of night-time animation or a feel for driving down the strip at 70 miles an hour. And much of the language is quite technical planning jargon. Phrases such as vehicular behavior or scales of movement punctuate the writing. The amount of verbal effort and fancy graphic display that he uses to describe the relation of the signs to the buildings, the buildings themselves, and the parking lots seem intended to force an admission--the strip should be an inspiration for all future architecture in this country...
...Verbal duels aside, Le Point's debut two months ago was a high point in a fascinating contest within Paris' politically marbled journalistic establishment. The brouhaha really began in 1970, when J.J. S.S. won a seat in the National Assembly representing his somewhat left-of-center Radical Party...
...soccer match between Tel Aviv Hapoel and Jerusalem Hapoel was not a cheer for the home team but an angry denunciation of the referees. Though the epithet means "Son of a whore!" in Hebrew, the referees were more relieved than offended; after all, the abuse was merely verbal...