Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Memorial's Dr. Maurice Shils devised a fluid diet that could supply all the protein, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates that the body needs. A surgeon installed a plastic shunt between an artery and vein in Mrs. Smith's leg. At home, three times a day, she connected this plastic tube to a bottle of Shils' super-soup. Each such "meal" took three hours...
...whole. Richelieu's conspiracies almost seem lifted from another, more serious play, for it's hard to fear him as the villain he is when those characters he threatens are viewed with a good deal more irony and humor. Similarly, Hamlin has difficulties combining individual scenes into a fluid progression. Often he wastes time opening scenes with touches of realistic detail that can only serve to remind us of the artificiality of the entire venture. Only at the beginning of the second act does a quick sequence of vignettes suggest the texture of a complex, "historical" moment wherein a half...
Although the second list is still termed "fluid" by Corporation members, only a major deadlock among Corporation members or the strongest of recommendations from prominent faculty groups might lead to consideration of other candidates...
Under Michael Langham's forceful and fluid direction, the play moves in cinematic takes. But it is the era of the silent movie, compacted of melodrama and soap opera. How can such things have scope and stature? Why do they work and become deeply moving onstage? One possible answer is that at crucial, tense, catastrophic or ecstatic moments in the lives of men and women, they do behave like characters in melodramas or soap operas...
...wipe it on part of the stage where Bobby had walked. He did and returned it to the grateful girl. I wondered how many die-hard fans of this genre had crowded close to the stage and popped especially heady pimples so that Bobby might walk on the fluid with his bright white boots...