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Timing is key in Act II. The setting is backstage during a performance, and while all the actors are running around backstage (the set from Act I having been turned around), the audience hears and glimpses the actors on the other side of the backdrop performing Nothing On. Director Claflin deserves praise for his masterly staging and for the fact that the actors are able to execute his plan perfectly. Much of this act is funny because characters enter at inopportune moments and misinterpret the action they see; without exactly timed entrances and exits, this act would not work. Despite...
...days are gone in Kenya when the agriculture is limited to large farms headed by white colonists," said Leakey. "We are seeing a radical transformation in land use. Conservation has to be seen against that backdrop...
Against a backdrop of financial crisis in public higher education, nonfaculty professionals at the University of Massachusetts voted 3-to-1 yesterday to form a union...
...West was won, Los Angeles and the 20th century were built, by the cowboy mind. To the cowboy, nature was a vast wilderness waiting to be tamed. The land was a stage, a backdrop against which he could pursue his individual destiny. The story of the world was the story of a man, usually a white man, and its features took their meaning from their relationship to him. A mountain was a place to test one's manhood; an Asian jungle with its rich life and cultures was merely a setting for an ideological battle. The natives are there...
Some of these circuits are long and slow, so that consequences may take years or generations to manifest themselves. That helps sustain the cowboy myth that nature is a neutral, unchanging backdrop. Moreover, evolution seems to have wired our brains to respond to rapid changes, the snap of a twig or a movement in the alley, and to ignore slow ones. When these consequences do start to show up, we don't notice them. Anyone who has ever been amazed by an old photograph of himself or herself can attest to the merciful ignorance of slow change, that is, aging...