Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day, as the wind howls and the mercury sinks out of sight, Gerald Carmen is one of the few who can focus on presidential politics. "They're all charming," he says of the Republican candidates...
...stated in my article that the exchange of information basically sought by the conference occurred, but this is not to forget that the exchange was hampered by lack of focus, overattention to resolutions, and poor organization. I do not deny that the organizers had a difficult job: I just say they didn't do it very well...
ALTHOUGH the set and staging focus on the sweeping, impersonal forces that deprive the characters of happiness, Sellars does not neglect the dense psychology of the play. In a flash of inspiration, Sellars enlisted Roy Kogan '80, to play Chopin preludes and nocturnes throughout Three Sisters. Kogan's forceful and sensitive musical interpretation adds new emotional dimension. Kogan and Sellars have obviously collaborated to fuse the music with the staging to intensify or soothe the action. In the opening of Act III, as a huge fire rages throught the town and the family's restrained tensions burst into open conflict...
Sellars seems to have let his actors develop their own interpretations, chosing to focus on creating a series of stage pictures that reinforce their interpretations. His monumental style, however, is least effective at the very beginning, where a touch more continuity and less mannerism might help the actors introduce themselves and the play's refrains. As it is, the opening portrays the prosaic daily life of the Prozorov household and friends with jerkiness. Perhaps Chekhov intended a sense of alienation from the start, but that shouldn't make the actors themselves look uncomfortable on stage, as they...
...ethnographies, let alone novels about native Americans, have been written by women. Rarer still are those that focus on women. But Hill does not offer a fresh perspective. By being true to the Mahto, a male-dominated society, Hill tells her tale through primarily male eyes. Her women, though they win sympathy and admiration, are secondary characters. They are either treated as such by their men or, if not, two out of three times they end up dying. Their deaths--Wanagi's and Ahbleza's wives die--only strengthen the men's resolve to be pure and unselfish; neither takes...