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...solution that designer Ed Wittstein settled on was to construct a huge fixed set made up of portions of the required locales. In the rear we see tall diagonal cutouts representing the facades of London houses. To the left we have Horner's lodging, assumed to be on the second story since it is reached by a stairwell opening up through the stage floor. It is a lived-in space, decked out with a fireplace on whose mantle sit an hourglass, an astrolabe and a drinking-mug. There are a chandelier, a terrestrial globe on a stand, a mirror, antlers...
...developing the various sunshades. That effort required the skills and ingenuity of a wide assortment of specialists, ranging from pipefitters and seamstresses to space physicists and polymer chemists (who were needed to evaluate the effect of solar radiation on the thin, aluminized Mylar and nylon sheet used to construct the canopies). Because plastics are notoriously vulnerable to the sun's ultraviolet radiation, technicians taped a thin, gold-colored protective material on the outside of one of the shades. But they quickly discovered that the coating made the canopy too bulky to fold and pack. So they pulled the coating...
...Consolidated Edison utility company still wants to buy some of the forest from Harvard to construct an eight-billion gallon reservoir, an integral part of the company's proposed Storm King power plant...
...Costa-Gavras' Z and The Confession, Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers -- is to assume that the way to political commitment is through faithful depiction of political reality. So they select an important event and recreate it on screen, aiming to provoke a specific chain of emotions and to construct a specific moral stance...
...Winthrop House, under the benevolent auspices of the Boston Blues Society. Which I, in turn, missed. Because I had a date. Which was lousy. But Hound Dog plays a rare form of blues, one designed primarily for dancing. In spite of that preference, Hound Dog has managed to construct a respectable following, in Chicago, as well as on this coast, and is one of the more frequently mentioned "bluesmen's bluesman." He plays a $29.95 El Cheapo Sears Electric Guitar, and runs a band with no bassist, just a second guitarist, who may be Hound Dog's cousin or brother...