Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America) and musicals (Falsettos). Some soar into poignant metaphor. Prelude to a Kiss and Marvin's Room are really about responsibilities of marriage and family; the plays say that relationships of love or blood must be sustained even as the objects of our affection sink into confusion or decay. Love means always having to be there...
...this case, scientists observed the transitory trails of four particles into which a top and its antimatter twin should occasionally decay. Or did they? One clue was the detection of a muon, a close relative of the electron. At least, it appeared to be a muon. The reason scientists aren't sure is that the portion of the detector responsible for tracking muons is segmented like an orange. "And with the malice often displayed by inanimate objects," says University of Chicago physicist Henry Frisch with a sigh, "this muon went right up a crack between the segments...
...maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...eagerly awaited American play is a towering wall, like the facade of some Greek Revival government colossus, with two jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...
Titus Andronicus. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Hans Canosa. Produced by Emily Brodsky. Shakespeare's horror flick: Titus Returns. A carnival of decay. Loeb Ex, 7:30 p.m. Free...