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...original of a play exists only in the manuscript. It also exists in the general kind of staging which made the play a classic: sometimes it is preserved on celluloid, other times it becomes a Platonic form of a performance of that play. With Endgame, it is a timeless, barren interior of grey lighting. That aspect of the play could be 'lost' if it became popularly believed that Beckett's Endgame should be staged in some ornate, bizarre interior. This danger of losing the original is especially great with a minimalist play where there is no clear historical context...
...night), a 4,300-ft. airport runway, a two-story redwood shopping center and strings of small wooden houses now adorn the hills. A sophisticated sewage-treatment plant draws raves from visiting experts, and wildlife officials marvel at the increase in birds that breed in the long-barren acres...
...exception is Redgrave. Icy furies move inside this Olive: hatred of men, belief in ideals, repressed lesbian longings. She offers teasing glimpses of them all, but no naked displays. This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. And a performance one admires all the more because of the barren soil from which it springs...
...candidates. She picked up Liberal Prime Minister John Turner in British Columbia in July as he kicked off his campaign, then flew across Canada to catch up with Mulroney in his home town of Baie Comeau, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. "It was windy and barren country," she says. "Even the pine trees were sparsely needled. We bused to Baie de la Trinité and visited a crab factory, where Mulroney chatted with the foreman and we reporters sampled the product. Delicious...
Other attitudes are also at fault: by postponing childbirth until their mid-or even late 30s, women risk a barren future. A Yale University study of 40 childless women found that after 35 years of age, the time it takes to conceive lengthens from an average of six months to more than two years...