Word: actuallity
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...Clyde Fans" tells the wistful history of two brothers and their family electrical fan business. The inspiration came from an actual "Clyde Fans" office in Toronto. "It was a very old storefront," Seth said. "I used to look into window when I walked by because I'm very attracted to this sort of thing. In the dim light of the office you could see on the back wall two photographs of two men, which were probably the owners. I just assumed they were brothers. Over the next couple of years while working on projects I put together a story...
...after shop while his brother's patronizing, scowling face seems to follow him everywhere. Eventually he has a bit of a breakdown, wandering aimlessly through a fantastical miniature golf course until quietly sitting under a tree. Using remarkable understatement the Simon sequence gets at the drama that governs our actual lives: succeeding or failing at ordinary but important events...
...pilots aided by an off-duty colleague from the passenger section desperately try to land a DC-10 after an explosion robs the plane of its ability to make anything but right turns. Charlie Victor Romeo, a harrowing off-Broadway play in which actors recreate voice-recorder conversations from actual airliners that crashed, is every flyer's worst nightmare times six. And it's a stark example of an increasingly popular genre: plays drawn entirely from verbatim transcripts, interviews and other real-life words...
...quietly but fundamentally reshaping America's stance on torture. Contradicting 50 years of policy governing the treatment of detainees captured during conflict, the memos meticulously list all the laws against torture--then offer methods of evading them. The White House insists that these documents were abstract musings rather than actual policy changes. Nevertheless, they suggest that what happened at Abu Ghraib was not unique but grew out of a climate of ambiguity regarding the treatment and interrogation of prisoners that was created by an Administration determined to do whatever it takes to win the war on terrorism...
Though he sees final clubs as distracting from a more universally vibrant social scene, Corker blames the administration more than the actual clubs for Harvard’s social problems...