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...Bergman's dramatic conception, which is to stage the opera like an 18th century production. Many scenes take place within the confines of a proscenium arch. Bergman even emphasizes the theatricality of the occasion by providing a few glimpses of the performers off stage: Sarastro studying Parsifal, Papageno asleep in his dressing room and almost missing his en trance cue. Curtains rise and descend, flats rumble away to be replaced by others of equally splendid artificiality...
...takes a second gulp and passes Corky the bottle. "Here, have a hit. You look half asleep...
Indeed, Princeton outhustled Harvard for the first half hour of play, taking charge of the fast-paced, back-and-forth action. Coach George Ford admitted after the game that "we were asleep the first 30 minutes...
...meditator. Meditating, TM officials insist, cannot be forced, and it must be done in all innocence, a word they use over and over again. "If you list instructions, you can't do it," asserts Charles Donahue, coordinator of TM's Northeast region. "It's like falling asleep. You can tell someone what he has to do?brush his teeth, put on his p.j.s and so on?before going to bed. But how do you describe the actual process of falling asleep...
...those who quit is Victor Zukowski, owner of a Sharon, Mass., beauty parlor. "Look, I really tried," he says. "I paid my $125, attended all the sessions, and submitted to a ridiculous initiation ceremony. I meditated for six months, and do you know what happened? I fell asleep ev ery time. I just don't think it's right to charge people $125 for nothing...