Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, the three suspects surfaced again. This time they posed as a high-fashion photography team in a residential section of Cologne. Passers-by warned the police when the "photographers" and their "model" spent an inordinate amount of time concentrating on the backdrop for their shooting: the home of wealthy Businessman Heinrich Wolf, a possible subject for a kidnaping. Once again, by the time police arrived, the terrorists had disappeared...
...company's handsome redwood and adobe outdoor theater, is squarely in the 20th century tradition. Oliver's opera is a chilling psychodrama, a story of madness and perversion. Instead of a palace, the set is a surreal structure, an external symbol of the brothers' twisted passions. Against this fantastical backdrop, shapes and shadows mingle grotesquely. Soldiers resemble insects in their shiny black armor and luminous round helmets. Members of the court, dressed in garishly striped costumes, are a hideous masquerade, a parody of splendor...
...backdrop is Wales, with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine...
...basic setting, Ming Cho Lee has designed a huge and handsome two-story ballroom, with lots of French doors, upper windows, chandeliers, and two small opposing balconies at the downstage end. From time to time other interiors are suggested by lowering backdrop tapestries in the middle or sliding in a kitchen table from the wings. For garden scenes some potted trees are rolled in, and the sea-coast scenes are played on a side apron. Thus, aided by David Segal's lighting, the impact of the designer's architecture can be lessened when desired...
...bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be, well, different, you know, together. Milos Forman, the Czech-born director (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), trying to turn the Aquarian Age stage hit Hair into a movie, needs an authentic circa 1968 "bein" as backdrop for crucial scenes. Those affairs having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, he has to wing it. So Forman's munchkins hire six rock bands, reserve the twelve-acre Sheep Meadow in Central Park and put out a call for extras: "Director Forman will prominently feature those...