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Hogan's twilight trip did not end with a pitching change, but with the umpires' decision to call the game on account of darkness.

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: B.C., Darkness Beat Batsmen | 4/5/1991 | See Source »

THE SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 25, 1991 | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

Tan has designed an intergalactic Gothic set in which to develop his complex vision. Placed in a world of darkness and asymmetries, Aeschylus' familiar characters are de-familiarized, distored and dissected. Athena, once the cool, collected goddess of wisdom, is transformed into a weary, indifferent hostess. The Athenian court of...

Author: By Alexander E. Marashian, | Title: Concept is not Enough | 3/22/1991 | See Source »

However, the few standout performances were buried by poor production values. The end of each scene and the beginning of the play were smothered in darkness. Not only was this effect disorienting, but it also became slightly scary when one did not know the person in the neighboring seat. Such...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: This Play Should Go Back to School | 3/15/1991 | See Source »

Westerners, who have wandered through centuries of darkness and enlightenment and rationalism and scientific method and then the various neo- darknesses of the 20th century (Auschwitz, Hiroshima and so on), have some difficulty with these dreamy effects in which reality and illusion float back and forth interchangeably. Americans have a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Holy War of Words | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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