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Ecstasy. Stage 2 is frequently marked by vivid, happy memories of the past. Noyes believes that this "life review" is an emotional defense against the thought of extinction; apparently deprived of his future, a dying person concentrates his vital energy on recapturing what was precious to him in the past. Describing his personal experience, Heim wrote: "I saw myself as a seven-year-old boy going to school, then in the fourth-grade classroom with my beloved teacher Weisz. I acted out my life as though I were on a stage upon which I looked down from the highest gallery...
MANN STICKS CLOSELY to Montgomery's scenario, and sends it off with the balletic theatrics and vivid emotionalism needed to give it effect. The entire play is enacted on a stage base except for a canvas-sectioned backdrop behind which white figures rhythmically evoke the contortions of the Idiot's mind, and a series of ramps, stairs and platforms which provide as many stages within the stage as the situations demand. Mann uses this excellent Peter Agoos set (he also did the costumes) to help us keep track of all the characters' forward motion without upsetting the fluidity...
More significantly, Blackberry Winter raises more questions than it answers about what Mead is like as a person. Though it sketches vivid portraits of her parents, it is singularly uncommunicative about the author herself. Her fairness toward those who caused her suffering is admirable, but a spirited apologia and a bit of justifiable human anger would be more revealing. In fact, Mead's dispassionate recital of events that must have hurt her suggests a lifelong flight from personal feeling, and possibly even from people. One of the book's more revealing passages may be the one in which...
...exotic accompaniment by beating sticks and bells, seemed like an ongoing experiment that has not yet found a final form. But in Harambee!, a drama about martyred black leaders, accompanied by five on stage drummers, his flair for sound and atmosphere brightened the stage of the ANTA with vivid scenes: the shooting of a black chief, a bust by the authorities, the re birth of rebellion in the up surge of anger that follows...
...Hampered by poverty, his life truncated at a moment when most artists are only beginning to work, Gaudier-Brzeska did not produce a large body of sculpture; but he was an indefatigable letter writer, and much of his correspondence survives. The letters -like the sculpture-reveal a marvelously vivid mind, impassioned, quick, generous, with flashes of precocious subtlety...