Word: communale
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...unruly crowd was awed in silence as Godcheaux and Garcia led the band into a coldly crystalline atonal frame of mind. Winding on through "Me and My Uncle," they eventually ended the place by returning to "Anthem." A cathartic ooze slid over the hall, exactly the kind of communal satisfaction that follows the successful completion of any artistic whole. Renewal. Too bad that the Dead slipped back into a perfunctory closing of the concert...
Clearly, there were at least two sides to the conflict, and the U.S.'s blatant partiality toward Pakistan seemed both unreasonable and unwise. India has legitimate grievances: the cost of caring for 10 million refugees, $830 million by the end of March; the threat of large-scale communal turmoil in the politically volatile and hard-pressed state of West Bengal, where the bulk of the refugees have fled; the presence on Indian soil of large numbers of guerrillas who could become a militant force stirring up trouble among India's own dissatisfied masses; and finally, the prospect...
...replaced by a sliding scale of allowable premarital sex, geared to the permanence, depth and maturity of the relationship. The report finds "exceptional circumstances" in which adultery might be justified: for instance, when one spouse suffers permanent mental incapacity. It also says the church should explore the possibility of communal and other sex styles for the unmarried. The church's General Assembly voted to "receive" the report for study after deciding by a narrow margin to insert this amendment: "We reaffirm our adherence to the moral law of God that adultery, prostitution, fornication, and/or the practice of homosexuality...
...actors wear jeans and old shirts or sweaters; the only props are a bench, a few chairs and one spotlight. The bareness is dictated in part by the scripts, but it is also integral to this kind of communal theatre. Coming and Going required very little money to stage and admission is free. Keeping the production as far removed from the money system as possible accentuates its populist spirit, and the worth of what the actors have themselves created...
...director, Charles Bernstein, terms Coming and Going a "communal collage." Various pieces are assembled as in a collage, but the fragments are never quite pasted on any one background. Coming and Going could be a powerfully integrated experience in the theatre; as it is it's a sandwich...