Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced) fans at Boston Arena saw a fast-paced, exciting, action-filled, rough-and-tumble and--except for the vocal cadre of 50 Crimson supporters lumped at the Harvard end--enjoyable sport last night. But it wasn't the kind of hockey Harvard can play if it expects to win more than a few, fortunate games this season...
...Electronic Entertainment, some pop stars were asked what albums they had been listening to lately. While most listed mainstream stuff like Pink Floyd and the Police, David Byrne, leader of the Talking Heads, mentioned "Vietnam Music Instrumental Popular Songs" by Tran Quang Hai and Bach Yin, "Ethiopian Polyphony and Vocal Techniques" and "The Popular Music of North Africa" (on Vogue Records in case the Coop is out of it and you have to order...
...London, with out side work negotiable. The pay is short (from $208 to $960 a week), and the training is rigorous. Besides daily rehearsals, actors may log time in movement, fencing and dance classes, as well as brush up on voice and language with the R.S.C.'s crack vocal coach, Cicely Berry. "You've got to make Shakespeare sound so new-minted you could almost hear it in the street," says Judi Dench. Sinead Cusack, who is ending her first Stratford season, says of her earlier work in film and television: "You don't learn very much...
...Loeb production it is difficult to see the actors' features or, often, to hear them over the fall of water--much less to catch an involuntary vocal tremor. So the problem that undergraduates have traditionally had at the Loeb--the sheer inability to occupy the space while maintaining a modicum of subtlety or humanity--is exacerbated. But the approach seems conscious, particularly when Cornuelle places an actor behind a pole during a key confrontation, or has Marina, the old nurse, speak throughout in Russian. These kind of alienation effects often shed surprising light on classic plays, but I question their...
...released after nearly eight years of detention in a military camp to seek medical treatment abroad. Marcos has so far produced no evidence directly linking the exiles to the April 6 organization's bombing campaign; the arrest orders seemed largely intended to put pressure on his most vocal opponents abroad. Another target may have been the Carter Administration, which has persistently urged Marcos to end martial law, but needs to maintain good relations with him because of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Meanwhile, U.S. officials regard leaders like Aquino as the most promising successors to Marcos...