Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grow, you cannot stop Twentieth-Century Americans from going anyway, getting into big cars and getting buzzed and plunging into the interstate highway system to lose their identities in rivers of metal and asphalt that hold out the promise of something new and exciting, always just off the next exit, just past the next Howard Johnson's, just after the next interchange. Such is the lure of the road in America. Such was the mirage we chased...
...these prerequisites, with a few glaring exceptions. The play is staged in the "Fishbowl," Currier's large glass-enclosed room, and the set effectively uses the Fishbowl's starkness and airiness to simulate the atmosphere of a deserted island. One imaginative touch is the set's use of the exit doors. David Reiffel, the set designer and the co-director, drapes a sheet outside the exit door and shines a soft blue light on it, evoking the idea of a terrace overlooking...
Ionesco is a leading figure of the "Theater of the Absurd" and the author of such internationally produced plays as "The Bald Soprano," "Rhonoceros," "Exit the King" and "The Killer...
...that perhaps the most beautiful sight in space is a urine dump. A urine dump? It seems that when orbiting astronauts release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions from the exit nozzle. The same thing would happen to ordinary water, but none is ever dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft. "The most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset," says Schweickart. "It's really spectacular." Well...
...tsou-hou-men. One teacher, sent to do manual labor on a commune after the Cultural Revolution, tried in vain to leave China by the front door. Last year he got out by the back, after appealing to a former student who had been put in charge of approving exit visas. Success stories of this kind have given rise to a popular new proverb in China: "When a man knows the way, even chickens and dogs can go to heaven...