Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Winthrop Drama Society production of Burn This is a great show--and the Winthrop House audience won't let you forget it. No words adequately describe the slapping of thighs and wobbling of bellies resonating through the makeshift theater in the Winthrop JCR. They laugh; they cry; they hoot; they grimace; they guffaw; they constitute a spectacle in themselves...
...sound trite, but the play itself astounds with constant wit and poignancy. The intensity of the action, with just four characters thrown together in a cramped Manhattan apartment, accentuates the emotional desert which these characters inhabit. The hysterically funny but caustic dialogue undercuts any romanticism in the relationships portrayed. Burn This propounds a pessimistic vision of human nature...
Billboard slogans proclaimed, A MORE OPEN CHINA AWAITS THE 2000 OLYMPICS. Colored flags flanked thoroughfares, and taxis bore BEIJING 2000 stickers. To reduce pollution, some areas were forbidden to burn coal. All this and more went into Beijing's giant pitch to the International Olympic Committee for the Games in the year 2000. A decision is due in September...
...restaurant, the pair suddenly produced a Bible and asked Justin if he was aware that both he and his mother were going to burn in hell. According to Merritt, they identified themselves as members of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue and asked the boy whether he had names of patients at his mother's clinic. Justin refused to answer, and bolted for home. "We're all tight as guitar strings around here," Merritt says. "I can't believe they came after...
...flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated Kuwait City, he tracks through apartments fouled by soldiers' dung. Back in postwar Baghdad: bullyboys, profiteers and "the total degradation of a people...