Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Visiting artists at the ART are often incorporated into the Institute's ever-changing curriculum. When Richard Foreman comes to Cambridge this spring to direct The Fall of the House of Usher, a musical by composer Philip Glass which is based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror tale, he will also hold an intensive workshop on acting at the Institute, says registrar Barbara Akiba. And European director Andrei Serban has already taught a class on acting using bamboo poles during one visit...
...student in the class played Tom from Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, another portrayed Strinberg's Miss Julie and another played Hickey from Eugene O'Neil's Iceman Cometh. One woman did a piece from a Greek tragedy entirely in Greek and another portrayed "a woman who basically was having sex with a decapitated head...
...surfeit arises from the sheer size of the show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more besides. It traces the patronage of five Plantagenet kings and has a lot to say about how works of art were commissioned by the nobility and the great merchants, executed by their makers and read by the audience. It wanders off into didactic byways and outlines, among other things, the changing...
Four years after the market crash of 1929, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, barring banks from dealing in stocks and other securities. At the time economists believed losses from stock trading helped cause the widespread bank failures of the early 1930s. So it is surprising that Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is pushing to let banks deal in securities again despite the Oct. 19 market collapse and its stirring of memories...
Outside the Eastern Airlines compound that sits along the northeast perimeter of Miami International Airport, the temperature was a pleasant 75 degrees and palm trees swayed in a gentle breeze. But inside a first-floor conference room in Eastern's boxlike concrete-and-glass headquarters, the scene was stormy. Under the harsh glare of a battery of television lights, executives of the 60- year-old airline last week announced the layoff of more than 3,500 employees, or 9% of the work force, sparing only pilots and flight attendants. Said Luz Gomez, 26, a laid-off clerical worker...