Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the characters changing cosmic eras and lifetimes as often as they do, this play is extremely taxing for the performers. Since The Skin Of Our Teeth is both a classic play and a complex one, it's good material to work with and easy material to mess up. Fortunately, Jonathan Tolins' directing keeps an unstructured, multi-faceted play extremely coherent. Oleson and Clark are strong centers to a strong cast where even those playing minor roles are impressive--in particular, Mary Beth Hewitt as the grace-under-pressure and deadpan stage manager...
Dressed in street clothes, and reading from scripts, actors from across the East Coast presented the terse and complex rythyms of the verse drama that was the staple of the Poet's Theater, which closed in 1968. Two plays by Lowell Professor of Humanities William Alfred, "Agamemnon" and "Hogan's Goat," comprised the body of tonight's performances...
...cumulative cases of AIDS in the United States; 179,000 individuals will have died as a result of the disease. Moreover, it is now clear that the disease is transmitted heterosexually and does not discriminate according to any predefined "risk-group." In short, AIDS is a biologically complex medical problem that has all the makings of a major medical disaster...
Such individuals obviously live under a dark cloud of medical uncertainty; how many of these individuals will go on to develop AIDS or AIDS Related Complex (ARC) is currently unknown. The latency period between infection and disease, though still not precisely known, can be at least as long as five years...
AIDS will require a serious reevaluation of our values and attitudes concerning sexuality, behavior and disease. The time has come to begin to devise appropriate educational policies to address complex issues raised by this tragic epidemic. Educational programs at all levels, from elementary schools to colleges, must be developed. The necessity of a creative, coordinated and vigorously funded educational response to the AIDS crisis is long overdue...