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Word: ducting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letters under the guise of apolitical culture. As the troupe carries on rehearsals of the play, the pattern of occupation life emerges. The owner, who has ostensibly fled the country, is actually hiding in the basement of the theater, listening to the rehearsals through a hole in the heating duct. The leading man in the melodrama is a part-time resistance fighter. The owner's wife heads the theater in his absence, dividing her time between the state and black market "passers" who promise to smuggle her husband out of the country...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Truffaut's Diffidence | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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