Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davis's second-place finish, worth three points, allowed the aquawomen to stay within six points of UMaine, 65-59, and set the stage for the final relay, a winner-take-all event worth seven points...
...that scene, the mother and son circle the stage, his blind tom-cat to her broken-winged sparrow, until Tom lowers his tail, breaks the silence in order to regain the peace of their barren thicket. A breakable pane hangs between them always, a horse-drawn past and jet-lured future caught in the same jam of traffic but still enveloped in the mist and mystery of dreams...
...woman, and enjoy its insights into the cosmos of a "star." The Rose works splendidly when it treats Rose as a singing phenomenon transcending human limits and fails abysmally when it portrays her as a lonely woman with all of Joplin's reputed problems. As a star on stage, Midler becomes a voice and a presence. In the striking concert scenes, she projects an astounding vitality and animal-like ferocity, savaging both herself and the audience. Her voice lacks the razor-edged poignancy or raw power of Joplin's but has a vibrancy all its own. Fortunately, Midler avoids impersonating...
Interestingly, The Rose evokes little nostalgia of the '60s. The concert scenes are exciting, but the audiences appear so carnivorous that Rose's on-stage death seems sacrificial. Everything looks drugged out and messy. Not only messy in a physical sense, with all of Rose's glimmering, filthy rags and feathers, but also in a spiritual sense. The crowd scenes capture the alienated, frenetic mood of the late '60s. The Rose portrays the jarring disillusionment caused by the American Dream going bust...
...What social forms does human society pass through in its development from a low to a high stage...