Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Israelis have also acquired considerable equipment in their battles with the Arabs. Last fall they used captured Soviet armored cars, still bearing their original Egyptian markings and manned by Israeli commandos dressed in Egyptian-type uniforms, to stage a ten-hour raid along Egypt's side of the Suez Canal. In their most recent raid, commandos slipped across the Gulf of Suez, made a 90-minute forced march to an Egyptian radar site near Ras Gharib and dismantled the seven-ton Soviet-made radar unit. Helicopters whisked the entire installation, housed in two huge vans, 17 miles into Israeli...
Sound-Sensitive. Playing on its own portable, motorized stage, 180 ft. long and 80 ft. wide, the show subdivides into 13 major acts featuring Mickey Mouse as master of ceremonies ("He's so cool and clean-cut," says Producer-Director Bob Jani). Also on hand are Pluto, the Three Little Pigs, Donald Duck, Dumbo and his circus, Cinderella, the Jungle Book characters, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Each act and character is introduced on the giant overhead movie screen with clips from the appropriate Disney movie. Around the edges of the portable stage is a 6-ft.-wide...
Although it is all very bippity-boppity-boo and cynics may scoff at those giant cartoon characters bobbing about on that enormous stage, the kids love it. So do most of their parents. In Chicago, the big people were right in there with the little people, singing the Mickey Mouse song, wearing Mickey Mouse hats and scrambling to shake hands with the Disney characters as they moved through the audience...
...self-serving nationalism, asserting that the truly essential events of history have probably gone unrecorded. Everyone knows the paltry date upon which Columbus first set foot in the New World, but who knows, Borges asks, the really important and prophetic moment when Aeschylus added a second actor to his stage-opening possibilities for dialogue and dramatic interaction...