Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bright spotlights are trained on the audience seated around the stage. On center stage, the daughter (Cara Polites) of the mythic Aryan god Indra sits on a cloud suspended from the ceiling. These foreshadow the plethora of contrasting, inconsistent and perplexing images that are thrown at us in rapid succession...
...voices from every conceivable corner of the auditorium chanting "Daughter, Daughter." The chant builds up to a feverish crescendo ending upon the entrance of Indra, the God of Heaven (Jonathan Weinberg). "How did you get here?", he asks, to which his innocent daughter replies, "I was carried on a cloud, but it seems to be falling." The "here" that Indra refers to is Earth, the "dark and heaviest world" whose "discontented, thankless" inhabitants speak a language Indra calls "complaint." Indra's daughter does not agree with her father's condemnation of the human race. "Don't say that!" she says...
...Ernest F. Hollings told workers in his home state of South Carolina to "draw a mushroom cloud and put underneath it: 'Made in American by lazy and illiterate Americans and tested in Japan'" (Boston Globe, March...
...week. Speaking to a group of workers at a home-state roller-bearing manufacturing plant, the loose-tongued 70-year-old Democrat said he had a message for Japanese officials who have questioned the competence of the U.S. work force. He advised them to think of the atomic mushroom cloud and recall that it was "made in America by illiterate Americans and tested in Japan...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Margaret Carlson, Ann Blackman, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: David S. Jackson...