Word: clanged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wields one or two inexpressive arm gestures again and again. The stage that seemed to have so much potential becomes a nuisance when actors turn around and throw unprojected, inaudible lines to about a third of the audience at a time. Every lighting change is accompanied by a melodramatic clang, and the actors have a precarious grasp on their lines...
Time and time again, Princeton players had open shots that would end with a clang off the post, a save by sophomore goaltender Kate Schutt (seven saves in the first half) or a miss altogether...
...problem with moral lectures by politicians is not just the clang effect. Once politicians cross the threshold and begin to preach, it becomes natural for the flock to demand of the preachers an accounting of their private lives, if only to see how the pulpit pounders live up to their own proclaimed standards. And that in turn legitimates our current obsession with what is euphemistically called character but is really a prurient interest in the private lives -- actually, the private vices -- of our leaders. Campaigns turn into spectacles of dueling peccadilloes and mutual muckraking. The end result of this orgy...
...Clang! Clang! Clang...
This joyride jumps back and forth through different scenes without any logical chronology. It is rapid and provocative, each scene change marked by the resounding clang of the frying pan and distorted recordings of the dialogue that have transpired on stage. The result is something very much like a current Reebok crosstrainer commercial, the kind of thing the play seems to mock. The 27 scene changes are clocked and set into motion with finesse, a credit to the lighting and set crew. However, these changes also pose a problem. Too abrupt and vague at times, they tend to jerk...