Word: descending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUTLEY Directed by HAROLD PINTER Screenplay by SIMON GRAY Ben Butley, who teaches English literature at a London university, is generally befogged and intermittently besieged. An arch ex-wife seeks him out with the news that she plans to remarry. Students descend on him for tutorials, inundate him with papers like "Hate and Redemption in A Winter's Tale. "Edna Shaft (Jessica Tandy) is upset because Butley(Alan Bates) encouraged a student to quit one of her stifling seminars. Joey Keyston (Richard O'Callaghan), a junior member of the department, is planning to move in with his lover...
Greenberg and Hantz arrest dope dealers by using a variety of enterprising but dubious techniques: they break into apartments from the roof, descend from tall, tall buildings on long, long ropes...
...that the five schooners that must tilt and collapse when a wind machine blows at the beginning of the opera will jam some night and halt the entire production. Another perilous moment occurs in the Royal Hunt and Storm scene in the second act. Four human ghosts must descend from 60 feet in the air into the audience's vision, while the giant turntable is about to spin forward, all without disclosing the projection equipment. Any electrical trouble then would end the evening...
...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute varsity skaters from Troy, N.Y., descend on Boston Garden tonight in search of their second upset victory in the ECAC Division One Playoffs...
...occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women and children who descend upon the bus at every stop trying to sell meager greasy pastries and bottles of sugary soda. The road continues on through the stark plateau...