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...Caracas. Suddenly and inexplicably, a half-filled storage tank onshore caught fire. Ignited, the 20,000 tons of fuel already in the tank turned the site into an inferno. As hundreds of rescue workers converged on the scene, superheated gases in the same tank erupted, trapping rescuers in a curtain of fire. Then, 17 hours later, a second tank nearby exploded. In the searing heat one fire engine reportedly just melted; balls of fire rising 100 ft. into the air knocked a police helicopter into the ocean. Said Oscar Machado Zuloaga, president of the Caracas Electricity...
Rape, like drama, is an eruptive act; it may detonate in slumberous surroundings. In Extremities, the curtain rises on a drowsy afternoon in a farmhouse somewhere between Trenton and Princeton, N.J. Marjorie (Susan Sarandon) is lolly-gagging about the living room in a bathrobe. Her two roommates are away at work and she is watering plants and feuding with insects...
...doctors stood by. With the medical paraphernalia-intravenous tubes, a cot on wheels and a curtain for privacy-the well-lighted cubicle might have been a hospital room. But Charlie Brooks Jr., a good-looking Texan strapped to the cot, was perfectly healthy. Then, just after midnight last Tuesday, the curtain was drawn back so that 18 unsmiling visitors, three of them Brooks' guests, could watch him die from eight feet away...
...autobiography, part candid, intelligent comment on performing and choreographing. In the past five years he has become an accomplished dance maker. In the next few months he will be completing new works for the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Hartford Ballet, as well as for City Ballet. This week the curtain goes up at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on his first attempt at Broadway choreography: the dances in a revival of George Balanchine's 1936 musical On Your Toes...
More than anything else, the set design by Beni Montresor supplies the production with its anti-gravitational quality. More precisely, the near-total absence of set accomplishes this purpose. A mirrored floor and a red velvet curtain constitute the sole permanent scenery, and both seem oddly out of place. Chairs and a packing crate and blankets on the floor (to suggest beds) appear briefly, as do autumn leaves whose color is much too bright for the mood of the last...