Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donna E. Arzt, a Harvard law graduate and general counsel for the Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy Center, said the HJLSA's efforts afford Zissel protection, because Soviet authorities now know they cannot just make him disappear...
James Schlesinger, former director of the CIA and former Secretary of both Defense and Energy, agrees. "We lack a sense of history," he declares. "These things do not just happen in the morning and then disappear at night. We cannot continue to live in this world as if there were no yesterday and will be no tomorrow...
...pushing himself so hard? Waits' every waking hour (beginning around noon) is devoted to his music, a book, a movie idea. "There's a certain reward," he says. "A very personal reward from all this. But I don't know, sometimes I just want to disappear. Poof! 'Excuse me while I disappear.' Deadlines, schedules, obligations, responsibilities. Sometimes the work just kinda drills. But then something comes along and boom boom -- everything's okay. So what are you going to do? Marry the girl...
...around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...
These are flaws of excess, however, not misdirection, and as the cast adjusts to the new location they may disappear. Either way, this production has an abundance of invention, mirroring Shakespeare's that insures its success. Making fun of the playwright is a dangerous game for directors; it runs the risk of suggesting to audiences that there's no value to the play, and no point in staging it. But Belgrader manages to ridicule Shakespeare's implements with the same stroke that affirms his comic genius...