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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while the staging immediately draws the audience in, some of the effects are not followed through. The brief film provides an interesting beginning but is soon forgotten in the context of the rest of the play. And where the constant presence of the entire cast emphasizes the drama taking place in the stage's physical center, it also puts an extraordinary amount of emphasis on the actor's performance--emphasis which some actors can handle, but not others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overambition | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...imagine himself in the ludicrously unpredictable and hazard-filled position of a woman, and if he can comprehend the enormous psychological implications of having one's peace (not to mention one's personal safety) in constant danger of being shattered, he will have come a long way towards understanding female aloofness. My friend's real fears only began that evening after her bus ride, for the man who had menaced her turned out to be a neighbor who jogged past her house each morning...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: A Post-Feminist Letter to Men | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...vitally important for us to show the politicians in Washington that the American people want an end to the constant escalation of nuclear terror. We cannot wait while Ronald Reagan keeps proposing and Congress keeps passing increases in our nuclear budgets. We must act now, here, to begin the end of such madness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support Nuclear Free Cambridge | 11/8/1983 | See Source »

Some terrorist strategies may indeed defy countermeasures. But although murder is a constant worry in Lebanon, precautions can be taken. Mats of steel spikes block the road to the Lebanese presidential palace, while huge stones and chunks of concrete form an inelegant but effective shield around the French embassy. In a sad irony, the Marines recently helped build two rows of heavily reinforced steel guardrails around the British embassy, where U.S. diplomats are temporarily housed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visibility vs. Vulnerability | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...freelance photographer is covering a revolutionary war in the Third World. Among his many expectations of discomfort, danger and the constant threat of death, he dares harbor only one decent hope: that in some unlikely 250th or 500th of a second his shutter will open and shut and almost by accident freeze an image that will make some human sense out of the anguish to which he is the world's paid witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Losing Big | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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