Word: harshness
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...playwrights, the chance to see their new work given a sumptuous first staging is matched only by the ability to keep tinkering with it while shielded from the harsh lights of Broadway. "One of the things you find is that there's a low level of audience pretension," says Richard Greenberg, who has developed plays like Three Days of Rain and The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory in California's Orange County. "There's a receptiveness about the audience. Their responses are pure. And that's especially good early on, when you're not so sure...
...brought in, snaking a tube down his throat to clear the blood. Before the night was over, he was dead, and doctors held out little hope that the boy would survive. In a city with no law, the innocent and the guilty face the same harsh fate. --By Brian Bennett and Michael Weisskopf with Terry McCarthy/Baghdad
...amid the harsh words for Hornstine and her family, some defend her academic merit. Ewing, the senior who criticized the petition against Hornstine as insensitive, said he once judged the high school senior in a mock trial competition...
...camera, the contestants were constantly abused by the professional wrestlers, and though most were much more kind and supportive once the film stopped rolling, the harsh treatment began to wear all its targets down...
...while substantial renovations of House gyms are necessary, they are no replacement for a long-overdue overhaul of the MAC. The health benefits of exercise are manifold and well-known, and the weather in Cambridge can be harsh and unpredictable. Indoor exercise is key to staying fit through those long, slushy winter months. That the University has not provided institutional support for basic improvements to House gyms, and the MAC is beyond unfortunate. And while a full renovation of the MAC will take time, interim measures of providing more exercise machines in under-used campus spaces—both...