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...QUINCY PRODUCTION, directed by April Limbaugh, proves unable to flesh out these powerful events into convincing drama. Failing to inject personality into their characters, the actors seemed to think that the verse could speak for itself. Reading Antigone is one thing, but on stage the actors need to convey a sense of the people on whom the tragedy has fallen...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Tragic Tragedy | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

Eliot wields these images as objective correlatives, ideally, to recreate through the atmosphere they convey, the exact progression of emotions that his own contemplation on time elicits...

Author: By Emily J. M. knowlton, | Title: All Four One and Four for All | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Nowhere does the piece better convey Eliot's sinister vision of his own past than in "Burnt Norton." It initially describes Eliot's childhood memory of being caught in a forbidden garden. Sullivan here downplays an implied reference to the garden of Eden, favoring the psychological rather than the spiritual ramifications of the trespass...

Author: By Emily J. M. knowlton, | Title: All Four One and Four for All | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...sufficient for commercial applications, says Lozano-Perez, it does not exploit the full potential of the robot. He hopes to construct robots that need only general instructions, instead of the highly specified directions that present-day robots require. His creations would then by themselves identify needed parts, convey them to pre-ordained locations, and work them around--as a human might--until they fit properly...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: MIT: Making Computers Smarter Than Humans | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...thousands; they describe the stench of rotting and burning flesh; they recall the feeling of human hair in their hands as theywere compelled to shave those condemned to murder; they describe the feeling of carrying stiff corpses rigid from the gas chambers. At most one could attempt to convey the feeling of watching it, of listening to people speak about unspeakable horrors which they have themselves experienced. In nearly 10 hours, (the film is shown in two halves, on separate nights) there is not a slow moment, not a gratuitous detail...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Creation of Memory | 11/20/1985 | See Source »

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