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...standout performances were buried by poor production values. The end of each scene and the beginning of the play were smothered in darkness. Not only was this effect disorienting, but it also became slightly scary when one did not know the person in the neighboring seat. Such drastic lighting procedures should be avoided, Faded lighting between scenes gives the audience an opportunity to focus on the set, while affording them time to consider what just occurred and what will possibly happen in the next...
Cambridge will need to make drastic cuts in next year's budget to keep the city in sound fiscal health, according to Councillor Edward...
...expenditure passed unanimously it sparked the longest debate of the evening. Councillor William H. Walsh asked Healy and Cambridge Hospital Administrator John O'Brien how many people use the present Riverside clinic. Walsh also questioned the wisdom of spending money on the hospital improvements when the city faces drastic budget tightening...
...Olsen said, the term "battle for survival" is a bit drastic...
Obviously, school reform is badly needed. But many parents--especially minorities, who comprise 85 percent of CPS students--believe that even more drastic challenges to the education bureaucracy may be called for, and call for a privatized voucher system. As Professor Kevin Ryan of the Boston University Education School says, public schools have "all the problems of a monopoly, of a protected industry that is there to serve its own interests, not that of the consumer of education...