Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pilots were told to aim for a "red glow," which was believed to be emanating from the core...
...well as such megatheatrical performers as Janet Jackson and David Bowie, have shown that computerized control of stage lighting creates a wide range of effects. The Grateful Dead, on a perpetual postmortem tour, keeps things fresh with computerized psychedelia synchronized to the music and projected on big screens. The aim is to find a visual corollary to the spontaneity of live (or Dead) rock 'n' roll...
...achieve that aim, the presidential task force envisions significant increases in child-care support and job training -- and beyond that, the prospect that if the market doesn't provide enough work, government will be obliged to create jobs or to subsidize employers to take on the new hires. All of which means that reforming the system could cost more than not reforming it, at least in the short term...
...theory, all these pictures should be cheered. Films, even American films, needn't be only a baby sitter or a roller coaster. They can aspire to edify, to pry minds open to moral indignities around the world and in our own cranky hearts. Why can't directors aim high -- not just for an Oscar but, hey, maybe a Nobel Peace Prize? And why shouldn't moviegoers, like everyone else during the holidays, be subject to compassion overload? Or be confronted by purposeful screen suffering until they shout, like Wayne and Garth, "We're not worthy...
This use of amateurs is a first for Arena. It is standard for the co- producing company, Cornerstone Theater. When Bill Rauch, virtually fresh out of Harvard, and a few pals launched Cornerstone in 1986, the aim was "community theater" -- not some PTA revival of Blossom Time but updated classics performed mainly by residents of wherever the nomadic troupe temporarily settled. The hope was to bring local people together and spur a lasting drive among them for creative expression. Cornerstone's 21 mostly rural productions have mingled art and agitprop, valuing political virtue as much as professional standards. They reflect...