Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blind jealousy about his wife Hermione's relationship with his friend the King of Bohemia--Polixenes--leads to the supposed death of his wife, the abandonment of his newly born daughter in the countryside, the death of his young son, and ultimately his isolation in his lonely kingdom. The actual play is filled with mystical presences, such as Leontes most trusted advisor Camillo--who casts spells and forecasts various occurrences--and Paulina, the queen's confidante, who seems to have some special relationship with the gods...
...play. Everything is intensely visual. Warner brilliantly sets the actions on two levels, using both the regular platformed stage and the flat space in front, usually used for the orchestra. The characters move all over the theater, sitting in the seats, entering and existing from side doors, the actual stage, and a back door behind the audience Heads are constantly turning to follow the roaming...
Reagan justifies the invasion of Grenada as a confrontation with the Soviet Union and Cuba in order to mobilize American society for an actual war with the Soviet bloc. Behind every-moment for social justice anywhere in the world the U.S. sees the hand of "Soviet aggression." Despite the political degeneration led by Stalin, the gains of the Russian Revolutions (a planned economy and collectivized property) remain and must be defeated. Without the aid of the USSR. Cuba would have been reduced to irradiated rubble over 20 years ago; without Soviet arms and Cuban troops the Black nationalist regime...
...like to talk reverently about "the energy that comes off the mountains." They mean spiritual, natural, ancestral energy, not the kind that could come off the high-tech Machu Picchu on the hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
From the opening shots of the factories and steel mills, the movie clearly sets itself up as a forum for social commentary. The actual football games themselves are less important, the audience discovers, than what they represent to each of the characters. To the players, the sport symbolizes an avenue away from the Pennsylvania steel mills, where their families have worked since the town's origin. To the coach, who doubles as a typing teacher, football offers a means of working his way out of an underfunded, unsupported public school system where few kids get beyond high school. And finally...