Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Heavies. Performed on a 160-ft. stage under an enormous shed, the Passion Play strikes many in its audience as deeply moving, but to even more it seems a cumbersome who-done-it that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression...
...Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare at times with a bleak view of man's fate, and a nausea of sex. No existentialist has found life more meaningless than Shakespeare's "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying...
...involved in the attempts of their age to press Shakespeare into a contemporary mold. Orson Welles dressed his Caesar in quasi-Fascist uniform, and Olivier's mother-possessed, mob-envenomed Coriolanus ended hanging head downward, like the dead, degraded Mussolini. Moscow has staged Hamlet as an army plot against the King, with Ophelia a court whore who played the mad scene drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford, Ont., Tyrone Guthrie mounted a brilliant, modern-dress All's Well...
...auto industry will give a big boost to employment by scheduling its biggest production since 1950 for September and October. Mindful of the election coming up, United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther saw that as a deep-dyed plot by Big Three carmakers bent "on juggling production schedules for political reasons." Once Election Day was past, and the Republicans were reelected, he went on, "output would have to be cut back drastically with resultant layoffs and extensive short work weeks." The Big Three angrily retorted that there was too much money involved and too deadly a commercial rivalry...
...worst temblor of the early Restoration was a delirium of anti-Catholic hatred. Although the frenzy was started by a supposed plot to murder the King, Charles tempered the witch hunt when he could, signed death warrants when he had to, and eventually restored order. Pearson tells the famed story of how, at the furor's height, a boisterous mob stopped a gilded carriage, thinking that Charles's French mistress, Louise de Keroualle, was inside. Nell Gwynn saved matters by sticking her head out and saying, "Pray, good people, be civil: I am the Protestant whore...