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...Duchess of Malfi from a gossip-ridden palace and situating it in the dark recesses of the mind, Shiels and Raymond have made the tragedy more ghastly, the villains more sinister, but both less convincing. The directors have reduced Webster's tragedy to melodrama--enjoyable, fast-paced but cardboard. A tragedy should make us suffer vicariously, if only for an instant. We don't suffer for an instant at Quincy House's Duchess of Malfi: it's difficult to sympathize with someone else's nightmare...
...commonplace, his obsession with originality, keep him not only from writing but even from talking or living without wondering whether it's all been seen on some stage before. His friends have to be Holvard Solness and Miss Julies and when they can't, when he sees them as "cardboard characters" and "cartoons," and their "soap talk" as unsuitable dialogue, he abandons them, forgetting that the stuff of everyday life must be, by definition, commonplace. Terry wants to live as the artist of the new and the hero of the new, and when he can'the hardly wants to live...
Senior Writer George Church's first foray into the world of economic journalism was a 1954 story for the Wall Street Journal about a revolutionary trend in packaging orange juice: cardboard containers, like those used for milk. The idea caught on and so, quite clearly, did Church. He rose to become a front-page editor at the Journal, joined TIME as a business writer in 1969, and served for four years as the editor of the Economy & Business section. Since moving to the Nation section early last year, Church has proved himself to be one of the magazine...
...inflates to appropriately daunting proportions with the throw of a toggle switch. There is also, of course, a wall, soaring 30 ft. above the stage, spanning 210 ft. at the top. At the start of the show, roadies-rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour-can be glimpsed doing their stuff...
Close up, you can see the pencil lines on all the posters, drawn to make sure the tempera slogans come out nice and straight. 18 by 15 inch slices of white cardboard, they hang square-cornered around the room, like paintings for sale in the lobby of a tacky movie theater. All red, white, blue, and black, all a little scary. The B-1: A Necessary Vitamin to Ward Off the Red Disease. Win One for the Gipper: Reagan 1980. Help Put the Laffer Curve to Work for Reagan. Big Government is the Enemy Within. Table SALT. And stretched across...