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...advice was irritating. But her sorrowful goodbye and the haggard, living example she provided tempered my extremist aversion to the idea of marriage and a family. Lulla's predicament enlightened me to the fact that, for all the polemical feminist literature I'd digested since I was 12, my harsh beliefs had essentially taken shape within the safe and cozy confines of a happy middle-class suburban household. It struck me, many years later actually, that radicalism is a privilege which most people haven't the right to abuse...
...area. The enclosed area, almost a proscenium stage within the larger floor, simply by its framing, infuses any scene within it with emotion. Yet, the most impressive sequence is the end, produced only on the stage, but done much less traditionally than the rest of the play. Lit with harsh, direct white light rather than colored floodlighting, the scene takes on an cerie dimension. Gone is the division into rooms as space loses its objective reality. The players occupy the entire floor. Droning synthesizer music in the background completes the setting for the final confrontations and decisions. O'Neill...
...July of this year. The budding recovery has whittled the nation's civilian unemployment rate to 10%, an .8% drop from last December. For 16-to 19-year-olds, it dropped .9% from December, to 23.6% in June. Embedded in the teen-age jobless rate is a harsh 50.6% toll on black youths...
...penalties signaled a tough new approach by Peking to the whole matter of U.S. commercial links to Taiwan, but they were not as harsh as some U.S. diplomats had expected. Pan Am has never used the Burma air route, and the loss of Canton for emergency landings is not as dangerous as it sounds, since planes flying into the area always carry enough excess fuel to divert to another city if Hong Kong airport is closed. Significantly, Peking stopped short of terminating the 1980 Sino-U.S. aviation pact and unilaterally banning Pan Am from the mainland, a move that...
...Corn points out, the eroticism that might have been an attribute of his figures is transferred entirely to the landscape they inhabit. Wood's people are nearly always emblems of either innocence or rectitude: pink and doll-like when they are not harsh and sanctimonious. But the hills are like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt...