Word: daydreamer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inch of the small Leverett House Library, including many doors, the stairways and the narrow passageway behind the seats, to expand the set and surround the audience with action. Light Designer Tim Magner uses different lighting techniques to convey changes in time and space--particularly during Jake's occasional daydream or flashback. And Hill's staging enchances the production by emphasizing the riff between the two clans. One side of the stage is reserved for Jake's family, another for Beth's, and their paths rarely cross...
...birds are the backup. Coal miners used canaries to warn against poisonous gases; the desert uses chickens. One air base named its newspaper after its chicken -- Buford Talks -- on the grounds that as long as the bird is squawking, they are safe. When peace comes, the soldiers daydream, they will hold a barbecue...
...closer to home, Harvard, too, indulged in the feel-good daydream and suffered for it. Most of the Class of '90 arrived in Cambridge days after he University's sprawling week-long party for its 350th birthday. Coming after the shamelessly commercial Los Angeles Olympic ceremonies and the orgiastic Statue of Liberty commemoration, Harvard spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on flag-waving majorettes, fireworks, concert orchestras and multimedia projections in The Stadium...
...help. And the play commits the once unpardonable sin of bringing Trotsky onstage -- showing him, in fact, as shrewder than Lenin. The theme is ideological purity vs. practical necessity, with pragmatism favored all the way. Compromise with the West is extolled as sensible; worldwide revolution is dismissed as a daydream...