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...common wisdom among theater watchers is that Rauch leans toward the first, appealing side of Howard's paradox, while Warner is more likely to shock and horrify Warner embraces and encourages this interpretation. "Theater is change, it's revolution," he says. "It should frighten people, change them so they don't know what to expect." His shows have sometimes drawn flak from offended critics for their heavy emphasis on sex, particularly bisexuality and androgyny--which he calls "crucial" for breaking down preconceptions, citing David Bowie as an artistic hero and model. The "Paul aesthetic" also includes mylar--greatly in evidence...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: The two masks of Harvard drama | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

There is more truth to the American side of this quarrel than to the Soviet one. Soviet protestations of pique or even fury cannot be taken at face value any more than expressions of good will and friendship. The bear is a born actor: he growls to frighten his foes so that they will back off, and plays tame so that they will draw nearer to be hugged (sometimes to the point of suffocation) or bitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Behind the Bear's Angry Growl | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...premise of the play does not frighten you off, perhaps the dramatic treatment will. The Curse of Kulyenchikov provides theater but no drama. All the tools are the music singing sels interesting costumes lights actors and a supporting crew. But there is little to catch the audience's emotion or to engage their sympathies. The occasional bits of humor surprising enough to make one laugh out load seem oddly out of place. One looks for glimmer5s of human feeling but in vain...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Village Idiots | 4/24/1984 | See Source »

...daily game of no-prisoners with the rebels who infiltrate from Libya to the north and Sudan to the east. The enemy also uses escadrons of Toyota vehicles, usually along with a 22-ton Mercedes truck for support. Some of these get through government lines, mine the roads and frighten the local population. When they do engage the army, they usually get the worst of it. In the battlefields of what has come to be called the Great Toyota War, the desert is littered with dead vehicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: The Great Toyota War | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...should not frighten people in the East and West again with a new quest for national unity, and finally accept the consequences of a war we instigated with all its horrors." The 800 miles of tank traps, minefields and barbed wire that still separate East from West are a constant reminder that in political terms there are, and for the foreseeable future there will be, two Germanys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Bridge over an Infamous Wall | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

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