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that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
Moreover, if the critic instructs his audience in what to see in a work, he is contributing to this pseudo-thinking ; ;
Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.
As long as his material is Americana, can in some way be ascribed to the masses and appears `` democratic '' to his audience, he remains satisfied.
The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.
In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.
The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;
As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.
You think somebody is going to stand up in the audience and make guilty faces??
Maestro's biggest stock in trade is his personality, and ability to establish a warm rapport with his audience.
It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.
As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century.
As the play unfolds, however, the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community.
The audience leaves the play under a spell, It is the kind of spell which the exposure to spirit in its living active manifestation always evokes.
In the end the good man, John Proctor, expresses what the audience has already come to feel when he says, `` A fire, a fire is burning!!
Yet such is the dramatic power of his writing that the audience is nevertheless left in the grip of the terrible power and potency of that which came over Salem.
The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.
Putting on local musicians at this place in the program serves a triple purpose: it saves the top flight jazz men from being wasted in this unenviable spot, when the audience is cold, restless, and in flux ; ;
Not so well known is the growth of broadcasting operations aimed wholly or partly at Negro listeners -- an audience which, in the United States, comprises some 19,000,000 people with $20,000,000,000 to spend each year.
Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal.
He is well known for having given a series of lectures in which he championed a pure form of Christian doctrine and chastised his audience about their laxity.
While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

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At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.
The term slapstick was taken from the wooden sticks that clowns slapped together to promote audience applause.
Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.
At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.
Their language is full of flamboyant and lofty rhetoric so that most of what they say is not taken too seriously, by either the audience or the other characters.
More specifically, some in Britain — especially supporters of the punk movement — regarded Genesis in particular, but also the genre more generally, as overtly middle class ( paying particular attention to Gabriel, Banks and Rutherford's private education ), and claimed that rock music was being taken away from the working class, whom they regarded as its core audience.
Dana Aspinall also suggests that an Elizabethan audience would have been similarly taken aback by the play's harsh, misogynistic language: " Since its first appearance, some time between 1588 and 1594, Shrew has elicited a panoply of heartily supportive, ethically uneasy, or altogether disgusted responses to its rough-and-tumble treatment of the ' taming ' of the ' curst shrew ' Katherina, and obviously, of all potentially unruly wives.
In this sense then, the Induction has a vital role to play in the controversy of the play, especially as it relates to misogyny, as, if Oliver's argument is accepted, it serves to undercut any charges of misogyny before they can even be formulated – the play is a farce, it is not to be taken seriously by the audience, so questions of seriousness regarding the play within the play simply aren't an issue.
French director Pascal Laugier was set to direct the film but was later taken off the project due to creative differences with the producers ; Laugier wanted his film to be a very serious take whereas the producers wanted the film to be more commercial and appeal to a teen audience.
A winter's tale is something associated with parents telling children stories of legends around a fireside: by using this title, it implies to the audience that these details should not be taken too seriously.
With photographs taken by Maciunas himself, pieces by Ben Vautier, Alison Knowles and Takehisha Kosugi were performed in the street for free, although in practice there was ' no audience to speak of ' anyway.
Allen pioneered the format of late night network TV talk shows, originating such talk show staples as an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, audience participation, and comedy bits in which cameras were taken outside the studio, as well as music, although the series ' popularity was cemented by second host Jack Paar, who took over after Allen had left and the show had ceased to exist.
Offering freedom from the increasingly burdensome financial requirements of high-production movie-like clips, it began as the only method for little-known indie music artists to present themselves to a wider audience, but increasingly this approach has been taken up by such major mainstream artists as R. E. M.
After two meetings, it was agreed that an 8th series of Knightmare would go ahead in 1994, but it would be a shorter run ( 10 episodes instead of 15 / 16 episodes ), and the remainder of the season's timeslot would be taken over by Virtually Impossible, a new virtual reality show from Broadsword, the same production company as Knightmare, and aimed at this younger audience.
Shortly before his death, he organized a Catholic-Jewish pilgrimage to Rome with his friend Cardinal Bernard Law, where he had an audience with Pope John Paul II, prompting the New Jersey native to say: " I've had my picture taken with the Pope, Bruce Springsteen and the Dalai Lama.
Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by Mozart, but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the window that Polish people are being taken prisoners by the Russian authorities.
Men in the audience shouted non-stop interruptions such that her simple speech that would have taken some three minutes was not completed in three days of trying.
When Dandy Nichols died, the decision was taken to continue the series, as the ratings and audience appreciation had been excellent.
At the insistence of Sir Trevor Nunn ( who had taken over as artistic director in 1968 ), the company hired The Place off the Euston Road in London and constructed its own theatre space for an audience of 330, seated on raked wooden benches.
It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience.
An English expression with a similar meaning is " Roman holiday ", a metaphor taken from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron, where a gladiator in Ancient Rome expects to be " butcher'd to make a Roman holiday " while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering.
In traditional theatre design, maximum care is taken with sight lines in order to ensure that the actor can engage every member of the audience at the same time.
While on a post-mission goodwill tour in Beijing, Lousma displayed a photo he had taken from space of a " beautiful emerald-colored lake " in China and was surprised by the audience reaction.
The captives were taken to Kyoto for an audience with the emperor and beheaded at Moriyama in Kawachi Province against the wishes of General Sakanoue.

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