Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pinter also overturns one's stylistic expectations. When the English upper crust gets to pip-pipping about infidelity, the viewer settles back prepared for a comedy of manners. What he gets here is very little comedy, a great many mannerisms, and none of the sentiment that Noel Coward used to employ to make things come right at the final curtain. Betrayal must be understood, then, as a critique of a theatrical style and of unthinking audiences who have been having an amoral laugh and a tickle with it for years...
...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...
...targets are a little closer to home. Now, affirmative action is looking to the real bastions of power--such as medical school admissions, and tenure at prestigious law schools. The fact that this incident happened at Harvard Law School, for many people the embodiment of American upper crust, drove home the point that civil rights has set its sights higher today...
...launched from a Soviet submarine cruising in the North Atlantic, detonates near ground level at the Science Center. Within seconds, Memorial Hall and the Yard disappear into a crater more than 200 feet deep. The third largest library in the world is flattened, its collection buried under a thick crust of radioactive soil thrown up from the blast's hole. Little is left standing between the Quad and the Charles River...
...making a new series of exploratory dives. The expedition is called "Oasis," and its target area is a region of undersea volcanic vents nearly 150 miles south of Baja California. The site is part of a seismically active region where lava oozes from fractures in the earth's crust...