Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sighed with relief following the train's stop. By pushing myself away from the seat in front of me, I had kept myself free of injury during the brief and rugged ride. My fear of death subsided...
Thus with The End..., we watch (listen carefully) a play about a playwright trying to write about a play about the nuclear issue. In the first moments, Michael Trent is approached by a very wealthy mystery man named Philip Stone (Jeremy Geidt), who has devised a brief dramatic outline concerning nuclear war. He offers Trent a huge commission to base a play upon it. With stern eyes and a solemn bearing, Geidt is wonderfully menacing as he compels the confused playwright to take on the task. As Trent, Howard displays a suitably messy mixture of opportunism, hesitation, and curiosity...
...grab what we can," said Wes Savick, who studies directing at the Institute. Savick is directing "Stone" a play by Edward Bond that opened this Monday. He is also directing "Skinhead Hamlet" a compressed parody by Richard Curtis that's written about English urban punks. The piece is so brief, in fact, that Savick's major worry right now is "how to fill the evening up, not leave people short...
...Marine Corps confirmed that North was indeed hospitalized voluntarily between Dec. 16, 1974, and Jan. 7, 1975. That would be shortly after then Captain North, 31, returned to the U.S. from a brief tour in command of a Marine company on Okinawa. The Corps would not disclose the diagnosis; it referred all such questions to North, and these days the former NSC aide is not responding to any queries about anything. The Marines' statement did say North had been pronounced "fit for duty" on discharge, and "a review of ((his)) medical record . . . has failed to show any reason...
...related by our imaginations. If we are able to touch, it is because we have imagined each other's existence, our dreams running back and forth along a cable from age to age. Hold this paper to the light. It is a mirror, a delusion, a fact in the brief continuous mystery we share. Do you see starlight? So do we. Smell the fire? We do too. Draw close. Let us tell each other a story...