Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hensman said that the cultural revolution, having passed its initial stage in which the course of the nation was fought out, is still very active. Anti-Maoist forces have been quelled, Mao's predominance reaffirmed, and thework of the cultural revolution has begun, he said...
...enters in art deco sweaters, knickers, and argyle socks; they carry banjos, and they sing "I Want to Be Happy." A "Tea for Two" number, set in Atlantic City, has the fifty garbed in the best and worst of flapper couture. At the finale you can hardly see the stage for the sequins...
There are many fine touches: the Fellini-esque Bavarian music-makers who pop up on hillsides and in taverns, the bloated Wagnerian singers who rush at each other on stage as Conrad's eye seeks his victims in the opera balcony, the gaudy wedding cake of a hunting-lodge decked out for the Countess's garden party. And, finally, a surprise ending throws the ultimate psychological confusion into a film which plays bewitching games with violence...
Joseph Casper, the 29-year-old campaign manager for Mrs. Hicks, stood talking to reporters by the stage, explaining that the candidate "had never made any pre-judicial move" in the campaign. A lone waitress passed by with an empty tray and he said, "They're not drinking tonight, are they...
Finally, at exactly 10:15 p.m., the terrible suspense ended. "All right, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for," the MC said from the stage...