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This is not for lack of effort Osius along with set designer Steve O'Donnell and graphics designer Gino Lee have come up with one elegant set. A white screen framed by bronze--like the black canvas of an as-yet unpainted portrait of a war hero-provides the backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void. This screen provides an ingenious mechanism for utilizing Brechtian techniques. Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye. The screen also enables Osius a clever conceit...
...contempt for law: it invites anarchy." Louis D. Brandeis wrote more than 50 years ago. His words apply as well today. Ambassador Kirkpatrick's support for the denials of freedoms around the globe--including her ludicrously self-serving distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes--provides more than the ironic backdrop for the current controversy that the majority editorial suggests...
Reagan's professed adherence to the ABM pact rings a little hollow when examined against the backdrop of his Administration's overall attitude toward, and record in, arms control and defense. In looking for a way to protect the planned MX from Soviet pre-emptive attack, civilian and military officials of the Pentagon have seriously considered various schemes for ballistic missile defenses, or BMD, a land-based system of antimissile missiles that would require drastic renegotiation if not abrogation of the 1972 treaty...
Levine's mistake is making Harvard the centerpiece rather than the backdrop for her novel. The result is an ambiguous, often pretentious, and (still more often) inane jumble of Harvard trivia, the diary of any student at the College would be at least as insightful. Those seeking to capture, or recapture, "the Harvard experience: are advised to invent their own Crimson ties aside, veritas must prevail Splendor and Misery is entirely the latter...
Though Atkinson does not fit the play to the demands of a modern audience, he tailors it well to Leverett House's theater. The oak beams and wooden panelling of the stage provide the perfect backdrop for a play of this vintage. The choreography, which distributes the action over several different locations and levels, sustains the audience's attention, turning the playwright's flouting of the era's "unity of place" rule into an asset. Soliloquies from the ledges of the room's high-set windows, for example, make good use of the unusual features of the library. The audience...