Word: circularity
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...form certainly is attracting some interesting playwrights. David Mamet is helping revamp the book for Randy Newman's Faust, which made its debut to much fanfare at California's La Jolla Playhouse last year and will resurface Sept. 30 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (Look for long, circular conversations between Faust and the devil.) Terrence McNally (Master Class) is tackling the book for Ragtime, a musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, which begins a pre-Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn (Absurd Person Singular; Woman in Mind) wrote the book...
Among other images, one revealed carbonate globules--circular features closely associated with fossils of ancient bacteria on Earth. Another showed what seemed to be colonies of sluglike creatures...
State and local police cleared the area around the knapsack, creating a circular open space with a radius of about 50 yards...
...early projects outlined by the 1978 renewal plan included the restoration of the Lechmere Canal and the creation of a 16-acre park around the canal. The mall's food court now opens directly onto the tree-lined circular end of the canal, complete with a fountain...
...argument is that drugs and drug dealing are illegal and anti-social behavior. Of course, he's right that drugs are illegal and anti-social in mainstream society, but we shouldn't wish to punish someone solely because the law says their actions should be punished. To avoid a circular justification of law, the two students must have done something that was wrong in and of itself. To figure out if the students deserve sympathy or scorn, we need to look further than coarse categorizations of drugs and drug dealers. Were they disruptive influences in the community, whose own lives...