Word: circularity
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Part of the problem lies with the rash use of theater-in-the-round. Close audience proximity places harsh demands on the facial features of amateur actors; group scenes require complex and flawless stage directions in this circular space; lighting is made difficult; technical effects more intrusive. Virtually all of the play's striking visual moments--as when the rapacious soldier lurches bare-chested and vain from the bedroom of the Jew's fiance--would have been as effective on a conventional stage...
...would-be assailant could have learned where Anne and her husband were to be on the day of the attack by the simple expedient of reading the "Court Circular," a chronicle of the royal family's activities that is published in a number of London papers. Such publicity will doubtless now be limited, and extra protection has already been assigned to the royal family. Nevertheless, there is still understandable resistance to change the traditions of centuries. The royal family has "no intention of living in bulletproof cages," said a palace spokesman. After all, pointed out Home Secretary Roy Jenkins...
...circular upper hall with its white cupola is bathed in electric light, and from the depths of the station, along two parallel escalators, Muscovites rise to meet us in serried ranks. They all seem to look at me as if expecting me to shout at least one word of truth. Why am I silent? ... Because these Muscovites standing on the escalator stairs are not numerous enough; my cry would be heard by 200, perhaps 400 people. But what about my 200,000,000 compatriots? I have a vague premonition that one day I will scream out to all those...
...began the first detailed mapping of Mars, and only weeks after another peeked at giant Jupiter, a 1,108-lb. ship named Mariner 10 last week cruised by the earth's nearest neighbor, Venus. In the first clear pictures of the planet, Mariner's cameras showed great circular cloud formations, raising the possibility that Venus may have an atmospheric circulation something like the earth...
...Actors Company staging of Knots wraps an hour's worth of such vicious circular logic in music hall routines that include slapstick, songs, juggling, mime and dance. Ironically, the format runs into a Laingian knot or two. The words cannot satisfy the action, which in turn fails to satisfy the words. The reason is that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically...