Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black screen masks a platform upstage and creates an amorphous and cloaked space essential to Machinal's murky insinuations. The lighting, especially because it seems to be lit from the back, creates a silhouette of figures. This space becomes the sordid space of sexual conquest, first with the boss, later as a murky bar and finally in the second act as holding pen for Helen before her execution...
...scenes in the first act follow with an almost anticipated sense of fatality. Agresta, now as Helen's mother, manages to exploit the tension of the production; she must emote, yet her dialogue must appear to be a sardonic condemnation of maternal care. A genuine frustration at the play's emotional detachment resonates with the audience as the mother forces her daughter to eat a potato. However, the play becomes too rapidly melodramatic too early, as the sense that the characters are mocking themselves undermines the growing emotional tension in the play...
...first-place Crimson (5-4-0, 5-3-0 ECAC) travels to the Conte Forum tonight to battle cross-town rival B.C. (7-5-0, 5-4-0 Hockey East). The Eagles had been mired in a four game losing streak before rebounding and defeating Northeastern and Merrimack...
Harvard, on the other hand, is coming off a 5-1 win over Union, which snapped a three-game losing streak of its own. The victory was good enough to leave the Crimson tied for first with Yale and No. 11 Colgate...
...Gordimer herself begs pardon, in this collections first essay: nothing I write in such factual pieces will be as true as my fiction. What is appropriately important to her is emotional truth, words that somehow resonate inside the reader. Hemingway used to assure himself that if he could write one true sentence, he was on the right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction which...