Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly there was plenty happening in Ann Arbor that winter, planty to hang on to for identity, or for the feeling of identity. "Everybody," Harley says, "was running around like their heads had been cut off and the apocalypse was coming." The Arboretum, once the place where "you could kick a bush and it would kick back was loud with demonstrations; there was rioting when The Mothers of Invention opened a concert yelling "Up against the wall, motherfuckers"; Tom Hayden was running the Michigan Daily, Hare Krishna and Seventh Day Adventist freaks panhandled in the streets and fought with each...
...almost too short (5 ft. 8 in.), and his double chin gets out of control too easily (much to his distress) for him to look the part of a bona fide Secretary. Most important, he still relishes the simplified atmosphere of the White House, where he can hang up the gilded epaulets of the State Department, roll up his sleeves, and work in the air of pure power...
...from cities of steel and stone and glass that frazzle the feelings of self to the modern predicament) is the sense of connection. And The Exorcist, if anything, depends for its shock upon severed connections. Heavy mechanical cutting dissociates you from the picture. Its edges don't connect, but hang jagged. The lesioned picture leaves you with the sense of a world awry, a broken world whose sense has splintered. It's fun for casualties of a holocaust, or hellfire, anxious all the time...
...seemed to me... most appropriate that some time be set aside for all of us who formerly had to hang our heads when Mother's Day and Father's Day rolled around," Stewart R. Mott, millionnaire philanthropist and 1973 Non-Father of the Year, explained...
...problem with staging Kafka is that Kafka's realism is a tactile, not a visual one. K. is a faceless man in a Janus-faced world where you stub your toe on invisible rocks and hang your head against undetectable walls. It is a universe of paradox, people by bureaucrats, Chinese emperors and courts of law: all of which may or may not be mythical depending on whether you subscribe to them or not. To translate this state of affairs into performable drama is a challenge that Sanders and in some spots the Ensemble have barely missed meeting...