Word: filtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast began to filter out the door, Keith I am Carradine, the sensitive, unassuming hero of the show, removed his Indian headband, put on a more comfortable stovepipe hat, and took me over to the Haymarket, a nearby bar. I was there introduced to George Hirsch, Jessica Harper, and Jonathan Kramer...
Gradually, the Hair people filter up onstage, and the show is beginning. Dionne and company begin singing Aquarius, and the tribe flies energetically into life. Never losing momentum, they transform the marvelously entertaining evening's mood intermittently into moments of intense realism that clevate the play from delightful musical into very serious social commentary...
Some environment experts visualize future dramas of disaster that seem to border on science fiction. A few scientists feel that the outpouring of carbon dioxide, mainly from industry, is forming an invisible global filter in the atmosphere. This filter may act like a greenhouse: transparent to sunlight but opaque to heat radiation bouncing off the earth. In theory, the planet will warm up. The icecaps will melt; the oceans will rise by 60 ft., drowning the world's coastal cities...