Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...when a fine play like Dirty Hands is just waiting there to disturb people and set their preconceptions spinning about in ugly chaos. Unfortunately, even a heavy dose of blind faith (I want to believe!) can't change this jeremiad into a hymn to Loeb rediviva. The massive painted backdrop, the portentous music between acts, the stilted acting all stand between this Loeb company and effective communication of Sartre's conception. This does not imply that David Boorstin's production of Dirty Hands misinterprets Sartre; it merely suggests that through slavish efforts at virtuosity within the Old Theatrical canon, these...
...four months since they hit the market, nearly 150,000 People Paper pieces have sold (the most expensive, a Victorian brass headboard at $6). All adhere to any surface, can be switched around and remounted like a stage backdrop. They also give their owners some grand illusions: of a phone without phone bills, a Tiffany shade that does not have to be insured, and a bubble-gum machine that is guaranteed never, never...
...Jean-Louis Trintignant, was the victim of a homosexual assault in his youth. Having developed a consuming need for normalcy, he joins the Fascist party and works as a counter-espionage agent. The lushness, the depravity, and the insanity of pre-war Rome and Paris provide a stunning backdrop for the story ofTrintignant's political, moral, and sexual peregrinations...
...Amman, and that was where Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott spent much of the week. Scott made several visits to Dawson's Field, the desert flat that the hijackers were using as their "revolution airstrip." "It was a fantastic sight to see the three jets shimmering against a backdrop of endless sand," he reported. The Palestinian commandos themselves were in a state of near hysteria. "There was chaos on our arrival. Our photographer was relieved of his film by a Jeep-load of grisly characters bristling with Soviet weapons. Everybody was ordered out of the cars, then everybody back...
...drawings, the desolate Castilian plains of his childhood serve as a stark backdrop for phantom figures hovering on the landscape. His sculpture frequently shows a more whimsical turn, with animals and even inanimate objects eloquently taking on human personalities, as in "Bull" or "The Root Hunter." Stylistically, Sanchez is obviously of the generation of Dali, Miro and Picasso-but with a small difference. Far more than his contemporaries, he kept a firm foot, however far away he was, on the good Spanish earth...