TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE CURTAIN»
The term «the curtain» is quite widely used and occupies the
29.309 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «THE CURTAIN»
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the curtain.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.
There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.
It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE CURTAIN»
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The Curtain Book: A Sourcebook for Distinctive Curtains, ...
The striking book includes inspiring treatments for every shape and style of window-from cottage casements to modern picture windows in addition to offering practical advice on all aspects of making and arranging curtains and shades ...
2
Behind
the Curtain: Football in Eastern Europe
In BEHIND THE CURTAIN Jonathan Wilson goes in search of the spirit of Hungary's 'Golden Squad' of the early fifties, charts the disintegration of the footballing superpower that was the former Yugoslavia, follows a sorry tale of corruption, ...
3
Parting
the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and
the Cold War, ...
Examines the U.S. propaganda and cultural infiltration of the Soviet empire following WWII
When seven bored children discover an abandoned chapel in their home town, they decide to renovate it and to form the Blue Door Theatre Company.
The Gap in the Curtain is a supernatural story full of suspense. Guests at a country house party are enabled by an eccentric scientist to see a glimpse of an issue of the Times dated a year ahead of time.
Vivid and candid, this historical novel chronicles the lives of three families over the course of 50 years during the Cold War and its aftermath.
7
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization.
8
Peering Behind
the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and
the ...
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Kimball King, Tom Fahy, 2013
9
Behind
the Curtain : Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios: ...
Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music.
Ethnomusicology Gregory D. Booth Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean (Research) Department of Anthropology and School of Music University of Auckland, 2008
10
A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind
the Curtain
These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in his interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology.
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE CURTAIN»
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the curtain is used in the context of the following news items.
'WWE Behind the Curtain': TV Schedule and ESPN Documentary …
With WWE: Behind The Curtain, ESPN is set to welcome us inside the inner workings of the machine that is the sports entertainment giant. A long closed-off ... «Bleacher Report, May 15»
INSIDE THE MADNESS: SDSU takes on stomach bug; curtain back
The Curtain of Distraction has become a national sensation as ASU students pop out from behind the curtain during men's games at Wells Fargo Arena in ... «FOXSports.com, Mar 15»
ASU's "The Curtain of Distraction" is hilarious and...distracting
It says something when television decides to feature a split-screen of the action on the basketball court coupled with a camera trained on the student section. «Wicked Local Holbrook, Jan 15»
Remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre found
The Curtain opened in 1577 and was home to Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, from 1597 until the Globe Theatre was built across the ... «Phys.Org, Jun 12»
“The Man Behind The Curtain”
It's probably fair to say that Raylan Givens couldn't give half a crap right now about the well-being of his father Arlo; but then it doesn't really matter much how ... «A.V. Club, Feb 12»
