Word: afoot
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...cultural expatriate, far better known in the more adventurous European theater world than he is in his own country. "I thought this would be the thing that brought my work back to America," says Wilson, with some bitterness. The Knee Plays will tour Europe next fall, and plans are afoot for performances of various other sections in the south of France and in Mu nich in 1985. The best prospects for the world's first complete production, though, seem to be at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in October 1985. American audiences, who are accustomed to timid, representational productions...
When game is afoot, royal-watchers routinely engage in round-the-clock stakeouts, read lips with binoculars, suborn servants, hire little girls to give flowers to the royals and big girls (in the case of Prince Charles in his bachelor years) to give them kisses, chase their prey at crazy speeds in high-powered cars. There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed. One reporter has even been known to steal a colleague's photos. Others lay out misleading clues to send...
...assiduously reading his program and taking notes of the set before the play begins is actually part of the cast. Only with the arrival of Birdboot, clad in yellow, green and plaid and munching on chocolates, does the audience get its first hint that something unusual is afoot. The pair discusses Higgs, the first-string, and launches us into a fast-paced, clever hour-and-a-half's entertainment which only occasionally verges on the flip...
Director Taylor Hackford need not have resolved the paradox of loyalty, honor and duty channelled into the overall profession of maiming and mangling, but in a movie with so much introspection afoot, it seems strange that not a single character broods about the fundamental premise of the military...
Among students, plans are afoot in the Coalition for Student Aid (CSA) to-send Bok a letter protesting his stance and "trying to get him to reaffirm his commitment to higher education for all who need it," says Susan Cronin '84, who conceived the project...