Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCarthy said yesterday he "will try to warm up the audience for Dangerfield...
...things are more infectious in the theater than spontaneous good fun and the warm feeling of sharing the evening with amusing, if slightly disreputable friends. Even by theatrical proxy, there is a certain insidious charm and exoticism in experiencing, through staged illusion, the magic of venturing into forbidden places and untoward happenings that might rarely have been accessible, or perhaps acceptable, in ordinary life. Despite its concupiscent locale and a generous quota of oft-deleted words, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a font of fun and friendliness...
Havergal uses acting exercises and improvisations frequently, both as warm-ups and as contributions to the actor's understanding his/her character. "I don't know what exercises do for the surface of a play," says Havergal, "but they contribute a lot to the bottom part of the iceberg, the resonance of a play." One of the exercises that the Figaro actors did was to turn their characters into statues, and then make the statues grow larger and larger. Figaro employs a very theatrical style of acting, gestured, European, Latin. "The characters have to be very big, but they must...
Still, although the direction is weak, other elements carry the show. At once commanding and warm, Thomas Champion has the necessary stature for the good-natured, safety-net God of a Duke, a ruler who visits his people in disguise, manipulating their lives as much when incognito as when in regalia...
Much of the upsurge in campus activism this spring--campus activism, it is true, always increases when the weather turns warm, but usually not as much as it has this year--is tied to the increasing importance of the issue of southern African apartheid in the minds of students, corporate shareholders and the press. At Harvard, the entire complex machinery for making investment decisions has been deeply involved in the controversy over U.S. firms operating in South Africa, and in the related but more immediate issue of Harvard's investments in those firms. When the Harvard Corporation meets today...