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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is extremely unsettling. In the tight darkness of Leverett Old Library, our distance from the riots is shattered as we descend the steps into the arena where we sit, often catching stray spotlight and in full view of the other audience members and actors. The space affords little of the accustomed anonymity, and from the start it becomes clear that the aim is not to please, but to trouble...
...spent endless hours videotaping his rehearsals and, that same day, appearing on Good Morning America. Before the committee, Starr methodically recites his resume, as if who he is would serve as an explanation for what he has done. He is the most pedantic of teachers, one who wouldn't descend to your level to punish you in class for clowning but would see to it that the principal called your parents and revoked your lunchtime privileges...
...give another speech without mentioning the White House scandals, complaining about how it was the media that had been obsessed with the whole nasty thing. Or to see Henry Hyde, whose House Judiciary Committee must still find its way down from Mount Monica, as he promised last week to descend by the shortest trail he could find...
...know, and then, seeing O, they will be astonished. For Cirque has trumped itself again. Putting on a show in, above and under water has forced director Franco Dragone and the Cirque staff to create an intricate new technology that allows the pool floor not only to rise and descend but to "breathe"; water can seep through instantly to create a dry stage space. Virtually all the performers had to be scuba-certified, and all are dependent on complex mechanical cues, whose failure could mean injury or worse to the athlete-artistes...
Like millions of "leaf-peeper" tourists who descend on the region each fall, many students will spend the holiday weekend visiting rural New England...