Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lieut. Marsh Base in Antarctica for a spot of penguin watching. Looking for something really different? For $751 you can fly from Paris to Tamanrasset, an Algerian town at the edge of the Sahara. From there you travel by Land Rover on a two-week trek into the desert. You can ride a camel too, but beware of scorpions...
...Gillette's does rapidly. Mickey's goods get ripped off, and Bobby is nailed to the floor by an angry biker. Disgusted by the venality of human beings in the city (and without enough money to pay the rent), Bobby and Mickey decide to set up housekeeping in the desert and get back to nature. The traditional home of the American Man of the West...
David Wheeler's direction efficiently transfers Hauptman's work from script to stage with all its virtues and vices intact. Only a jarring transition from city to desert, towards the end of Act I, jars the airy feel of play, set designer Karen Schulz wins low-key kudos for her subtle desert bachelor's pad, and the dry desert backdrops...
...doing their duty when the nation called? Were the soldiers of the peace movement representatives of a uniquely virtuous generation, the most idealistic in history? (The antiwar protests died away when the draft ended in 1973.) Was the South Vietnamese army corrupt and cowardly? (ARVN units did not desert to the other side, and some 240,000 men gave their lives in the fight...
Tassel's quest to reproduce the original images as accurately as possible led him from hillsides to rooftops and from the seaside to the desert. After three trips to Israel, Tassel says, he began to develop a "sense of identify" with the early photographers. "I often knew that I was photographing from the exact spot chosen by my predecessor, but my appreciation deepened as I realized that he had not only selected the aesthetically pleasing viewpoint, but also the most obvious place to rest his cumbersome equipment...