Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience on two sides. The Ex's seat-wagons are placed directly in front of the two open sides, so that the audience becomes in effect the two missing walls, and The Pelican thereby achieves intimacy and involves the audience. The conditions are close to ideal for Strindberg's "chamber play" (as in chamber music): the play was written for a theatre which seated 160, and the Ex seats about 120; the austere set even looks Swedish...
...then to avoid inflation? Last week men who presumably know business best, 543 executives at the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, voted by an 18-to-l ratio to urge a slash in federal spending instead of a tax rise...
...chest wall of Marcel L. DeRudder, 65, in Houston's Methodist Hospital (TIME, April 29). For more than 41 days, with never a falter after the first hour, it had done three-quarters of the work normally done by the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber. What suddenly killed DeRudder last week was a rupture of the left lung. A plastic tube slipped through a small cut in his windpipe had been delivering oxygen under pressure to his lungs. What actually caused the rupture was a mystery...
...scarred musician will attest, one of the quickest ways to lose friends is to engage in the precarious art of chamber music. With everyone trying to be boss, squabbles over interpretation can become downright nasty. And with the members of the de Pasquale String Quartet - Joseph, 45, viola; Francis, 44, cello; Robert, 37, and William, 32, violins - it's even more so. They fight constantly. The difference is, they revel in it. But then they are brothers, and this, they explain, is the secret to successful shouting contests...
...Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then he would lead the boys through their paces. If a little extra encouragement was needed, Papa administered a smart rap on the head with his violin bow. Gradually, recalls Francis, "we learned to love, chamber music as much...