Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student-athlete named Steve Thomas with peanuts soaked in the mysterious chemical X. Wearing a slave-chain medallion, a cloth suit with the curse of Nat Turner upon it, and special boots that will enable him to fly by "lifting yourself by your own bootstraps," Black Man, the Soul Wonder of the World, sets out to "rid the universe of poverty, crime and racial bigotry." His arch enemies are Rodent, who breeds on filth and spreads disease; Riot, an immense black gone mad with the craving for destruction; and Narcotics, a heinous figure with hypodermic needles in place of fingers...
...DAYS' WONDER...
...This wonder, as wonders last, lasted nine days," intones Orson Welles in his best Eastern Airlines Wings-of-Man voice. The image cuts abruptly from a black screen to Tony Perkins thrashing and twitching in bed. He is in the last throes, we learn later, of an uncongenial drug experience. His hands are drenched in blood-"my blood," Perkins sobs, although he does not seem to have even a minor contusion...
Claude Chabrol, who excels at tightly disciplined exercises in suspense (This Man Must Die, Le Boucher), seems himself to be going momentarily delirious in Ten Days' Wonder, where tension and insight are subordinated to sorry stylistic flamboyance. Chabrol's camera swoops about like a dizzy flamingo, descending from great altitudes to light on such still lifes as a garden, a pond or two naked lovers entwined in the green leaves...
...chorus did well in their too-brief appearances. It is a wonder that so many fine voices would be willing to devote so many fine voices would be willing to devote so much time to such tiny parts. The greatest disappointment of the opera was the sets. Most ranged from dull to ugly. Surely something more can be done than simply using two screens for a backdrop. The best staging was of the Commendatore's return and the Don's descent into hell. Costuming was colorful and functional, but could not offset the drab backgrounds...