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...ALEX BROOK'S intimate set contributes to the effect by letting the audience concentrate on the intensities of the characters themselves. A candy and soda store mixing the cheapness of Store 24 and the clutter of the Starr Bookstore in the back of the Lampoon, the set keeps the audience in close to the heat of the action. The overall effect is perhaps a little jumbled, a confusion of Scooter pies and Glad bags, dusty dress-makers' models and today's newspapers. The chaos almost seems better suited to a country antique shop than a store in the heart...
...contestants gives a good down-home rendition of Whisky Before Breakfast or Chinese Breakdown. Dancers weave among the lawn chairs. A beery college boy with a painted face gyrates for a while and then collapses, to rise no more. One of his friends tries to jump a small brook in front of the bandstand and lands square in the middle, to moderate applause...
...that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream?each performer was asked to research an aspect of life in Victorian England and given a chapter of the novel to paraphrase. "We had a crazy theory," Nunn says, "that if 39 of the cast died, the one survivor could come...
...nitpicking regulations that cannot be enforced anyway. For example, the Labor Department now requires that employers attempt to make sure that exactly 6.9% of workers on Government-financed construction jobs, including carpenters, laborers and cement finishers, be women. Says William Corrigan, president of E.W. Corrigan Construction Co. in Oak Brook, Ill.: "I don't know one female cement finisher...
Vellucci and councilor Saundra Graham said hundreds of new office jobs would soon be available in Cambridge, the result of new construction in the Kendall Square. Harvard Square and Alewife Brook areas. They added that city schools were failing to train students to type, operate computers, or perform other business-oriented chores necessary for employment...