Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rich Hassman, a computer-systems manager in the waste-management group, is taking apart some Unistrut metal framing with a socket wrench. "Right now," he says, "I'm thinking of using this as a base for a water bed. I like to make things. A friend of mine is building a 35-ft. steel ketch, and he turned me on to metal welding. So I got a Heliarc." A steel ketch? In New Mexico...
...structures include a 7,000-bed dormitory for visiting journalists, a radio-TV complex, a press center, a dozen restaurants, and some 15 inns for an expected 30,000 tourists, from whom the organizers hope to net $50 million. Besides the 2,000-capacity Mojmilo Olympic Village, which is a series of high-rise apartment buildings, a special hotel for competitors in the Nordic events was built cantilevered on the face of the mountain. Athletes with icicles in their beards will begin to report there in January, the better to muffle the shock of the Sarajevo winter...
...month vacation in Europe to escape his family's problems. Serge has talks with his father and two aunts, his three elder sisters, and his lover, Nicole--and has talks, and has talks, and has talks. Wingrove's blocking is deft: Serge travels an a small circle around his bed, center stage, and is able to enter the houses and lives of each of his relatives with one single step towards their particular corner of the stage. His jerky, frantic movements contrast markedly with the immobility of the others...
Tremblay's dialogue is compressed yet disjointed. Though the individual conversations proceed chronologically, they are interrupted by the others, as if the family had a communal memory and understanding. There is more than a suggestion that Serge is this center, and that the set represents his mind: The bed and Nicole make up the core of Serge's world which is in turn fractured by the individual needs and desires of the others...
...actual set is simple, consisting of a bed, nighttable, a sofa, and a table set with a bottle of liquor. But it does not stand out on its own. We only notice it when the actors use various props, when Brick fills his cup or when Maggie nervously makes up her face...