Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters and the play seem to fall apart. Almost arrogantly having refused help from James, Sarah joins a "cause"-putting deaf and hard-of-hearing people on the school staff. James complains that he wants to "rest his hands." Finally, in an echo of A Doll's House, Sarah resolves to be utterly her own woman until she can meet James again in some space that transcends silence and speech...
...ominous black, knows better: Clytemnestra has taken a lover, Aegis thus (Peter Woodward), who now rules the land as a tyrant. He is intimately linked to the origin of the curse on the House of Atreus. All too soon the cries of horror sound as if from some echo chamber in hell. The fates are inexorable: the bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra are eventually hurled onto the stage like the carcasses of animals, and Clytemnestra emerges spattered with blood. As she drapes Cassandra's arm over Agamemnon's shoulder, one wonders whether she murdered him for sacrificing their...
...that, Wall Streeters are beginning to echo a certain heady confidence that the sorry 1970s had seemed to drain away almost entirely. Says Wall Street's Lurie: "I think people in this business have forgotten just how much fun a bull market really is. To me, all those rationalizations not to invest are pointless. We've come through ten years of bad times, this is an election year, the start of the 1980s, a big era, and it's going to be a big market...
...they are, this is the place to start. "We haven't been playing up to our capabilities," adds Parker, and Flaman and Harvard coach Billy Clearly could echo his words. This time it's B.C. they're out to get, but the Terriers, with tradition and the crowd behind them, are still on everyone's mind. Dynasties are rare in sports, and there's a certain thrill in B.C., Harvard and Northeastern are all vying...
...last president that was great was Roosevelt," she adds. She explains that Roosevelt brought the country out of the Depression and won the war. No single man can make that kind of difference anymore, she tells me. Pauline's fellow townspeople echo the sentiment again and again. The apathy in Farmington stems not from the belief that a single vote would not change things, but that the winner could not make a difference...