Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Hurry Tomorrow does convey, over and over, is a network of Catch-22's disciplining a doped-up, very vulnerable population. The doctor summarizes it aptly: "If you like it here, you can stay here, and if you don't like it then you'll have to stay here...
...Although the opinion mongers like The Crimson are undoubtedly liberal, and even socialist, they convey a distorted picture of the student body. A substantial, latent conservative stratum exists," Kesler said...
...CLAUSTROPHOBIC nature of Brecht's vision is matched only by the dreariness of the vehicle he uses to convey it. The Tutor is, on the whole, remarkably innocent of such dramatic niceties as plot interest, character development and convincing dialogue. Granted, allegory is hardly the most subtle of theatrical form; still, the minimum requirement for any drama is that it keep its audience awake, and if The Tutor succeeds at all in this regard, the credit belongs mainly to the blaring, percussive music which intervenes between scenes. A relatively short play, The Tutor succeeds at all in this regard...
...cheap shot--moved to tears, she starts to sing the theme from Camelot. Don Parker as the ex-drag queen has tried to capture the whining intonations of a cliched New York-actor-homosexual, but when reading Patrick's lines he sounds more like Henny Youngman (How can one convey pain saying, "I think I'm having an attack of the truth?") Kailani Lee works hard as the frenzied activist, but gets the weakest lines of all; in the middle of a breakdown, she bemoans the loss of "Jimi and Janis...
...convey no clear impression of what A. & P. is up to, the corporate story behind them is one of change and promise. Hamstrung for years by an inbred corporate structure, the company had been sliding long before ill-fated WHO. Its share of national food sales has dropped from 8.5% in 1965 to 5.8% now, which means that A. & P. has yielded its No. 1 sales position to California-based Safeway. A. & P. had too many stores; many were small and unprofitable, but until recently management did not have the nerve to lop them off. In December, however, Jonathan Scott...