Wearing a small cloth cap, and speaking slowly, with a slight old-age wobble in the Lithuanian accent he never lost, he delighted the room with a charming smattering of poems, philosophical quandaries, and brief depictions of overheard NYC scenes.
In the opening scene the brief depictions of anguished or wracked modern loners amid the passing crowd show one masterstroke after another, and my first reaction is to check when I can see it again.
Depicting Dance The 30th year of the Dance on Camera Festival begins at 1 p.m. tomorrow with "Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet," Nils Tavernier's documentary, and a salute to the Jacob's Pillow dance festival on its 70th anniversary that consists of brief depictions of Ted Shawn dancing in 1936 and Tanaquil LeClerq in 1951.
Felder's brief depictions of them and others mix reverence with satiric impressions, delivered with thick and varied accents, and and invariably bringing down the house.
An example: the original book has the briefest depiction of vegetables in the back of the Duck's truck; but the three-strong company turn it into an extended bit of business, giving giant-sized props to audience members to hold, and having Duck quack on about his plans to make "veggie-table soup" when he gets home.
His briefer depiction of critical thinking is that it involves judgments based on criteria, or reasons.
The brief, jarring depictions of violence were so harrowing that exhales of relief from the audience was near-audible.
Parsa's depiction was brief: "It is an actual bicycle wheel with its forks still in, turned upside down and thrust into a white four-legged wooden stool".
The same comparison applies to Mr. Harlin's flaring firecracker of a film, which resurrects clichés from several decades of Hollywood war movies in its depiction of the brief fighting in 2008 between Russia and the Georgian republic.
