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...sure, American productions of Ayckbourn are usually botched; directors tend to broaden the comedy and stomp all over the delicate (and very British) nuances. It's as if they still believe that silly Neil Simon tag. Better to compare Ayckbourn--who, at 61, has written nearly 60 plays and directs them himself--to another artist whose work was misunderstood in his lifetime, Alfred Hitchcock. Both worked in popular genres that had few pretensions to art--the suspense thriller and the domestic comedy. Both were technical virtuosos who loved to set themselves challenges in their chosen medium. And both managed...
...sister) and their two children at their Manhattan apartment or Connecticut retreat. This year it appeared that he was enjoying a resurgence. In March, PBS broadcast a special for which he fronted a band and sailed through such signature tunes as Let's Dance, Stealin' Apples and King Porter Stomp. The years had not diminished him much. There was the same smooth finger work, the same rhythmic assurance, the same heady, insistent, sweet tone that could cut through the thickest arrangements and roughest riffs. ''I just don't think I ever lost my enthusiasm for music,'' he said...
...threat, there are many other areas of the body you can try to injure: —The groin is a very vulnerable area if your attacker is male. You can either kick him or grab the area and squeeze it. —A hard kick or stomping motion on the attacker’s instep can cause enough force to break his or her ankle. —Jab the attacker’s eyes using your fingers. —If your attacker grabs you from behind, turn your chin toward his or her elbow and force...
...explain a bit of collective hesitancy amongst the faculty to rejoin the revolutionary party after a period of sad separation; 1991 found him saying he was “glad to see [Marxism] dead and gone” and planning “to keep a careful watch to stomp on it” should it reawaken. What exactly this ‘stomping’ might constitute remains unclear, but we can only assume that hundreds of Mansfield’s colleagues have ‘disappeared’ when they wouldn’t keep their mouth shut...
...funny? Would I want to watch that, if I didn’t understand the rhythm behind it?” Bray enjoys the variety of THUD’s repertoire, which ranges from virtuosic classical pieces to numbers the members arrange themselves, combining their favorite pop songs and STOMP-inspired pieces. She points to one THUD collaboration, written by its female members, that combines parties and percussion as an illustration of the playful attitude with which they often approach their own compositions. “We perform it using things—high heels, lipstick containers, mascara, compact mirrors...