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...depiction of imaginary events, allowing the three large square backdrops to be moved around and create the rest of the spectacle.There are a number of scenes that feature nearly a dozen people on-stage at a time, requiring complicated choreography for the characters dancing or singing or wreaking havoc. When Nicolae and Elena are chased by revolutionary forces, soldiers hoist the various backdrops, spinning them around the stage as the two characters run frantically to escape. The result is a well-created sense of chaos, a bit clunky in its execution, but astounding in its conception.The overlying nonsensical nature does...
...loss forced the Tigers to kick a 23-yard field goal instead of getting the seven it had so easily earlier in the game.But Ajayi wasn’t alone in his second-half heroics. Senior linebacker Eric Schultz seemed to be all over the field, wreaking havoc on Princeton quarterback Brian Anderson and his offensive attack. Schultz ended the game with 16 tackles, got in on a tackle for a loss, and shared a sack that gave the Tigers a 4th-and-18 from which it could not recover on its final drive.“I got after...
...control inflation of the 1970s wreaked havoc with Keynesian fine-tuning and seemed to confirm the criticisms of Lucas and Friedman. But their victory was never complete. The U.S. economic boom of the 1980s was at least partly the result of deficit spending. As financial crises battered much of the world in the 1990s, governments turned to tools devised by Keynes simply because other approaches didn't work. And behavioral economic research has since shown that most humans are awfully shortsighted...
...administration had to beg Congress to pass one of the largest government interventions in history, and before we know it, someone like Governor Sarah Palin may literally be a heartbeat away from becoming Commander in Chief of the world’s only military superpower. And now, amidst the havoc, an unlikely alliance between Russia and Venezuela has developed in the interconnected realms of energy and defense...
...accounts in drinking alcohol and dreams of getting laid, but the quotes that have invaded his mind also cut into the mundane; his thoughts jerk without warning into explicit renditions of the testimonies. As accounts of death, cruelty, and violence become an unshakeable, inescapable part of the narrator, wreaking havoc on his psyche, he too shares in the same experience of the Indians who survived the genocide. Just like the witness to genocide, the reader of genocide becomes “not complete in the mind.”Moya depicts the confused mind of his protagonist using...