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...Having undergone some sort of epiphany, Jennings' character has decided to leave her husband and the comfortable yet destructive life of drugs and multiple-partner sex they share. Employing some sort of twisted method-acting technique, Israel allows his principles to really go at each other in order to heighten dramatic intensity. The audience is asked to believe that Burns is allowed to rape and beat Jennings in repeated takes for the sake of acting .As one would predict, the animosity and seediness of the set blur into reality, pushing Israel and his retinue into the eponymous dangerous game...
...unable to appreciate the finer aspects of ballet technique, this production nevertheless assures entertainment through its lavish display of scenery and costumes. John Conklin based his scenic designs on the fifteenth century painting style of Fantastic Realism landscapes and German High Gothic architecture. Crimson Ballrooms and misty mountain vistas heighten the drama of the production, and Conklin's costumes are equally timely and striking...
...political theater is familiar to New Orleans, but it seems only to heighten public cynicism. Observes Xavier University sociologist Silas Lee: "We've taken a Mardi Gras approach for too long, covering up all the problems with costumes. But we were dying on the inside." That can change, others say, if New Orleans draws on its inner grit and bonhomie. "It has things going for it that others don't," says Renwick. "Who would want to eat in Atlanta compared to New Orleans anyway?" In times like these, a little civic chauvinism should be forgiven...
...doubt that a eugenics movement reminiscent of the Nazi era could get started in this day and age have only to look at the example of China, which last month announced a program of abortions, forced sterilization and marriage bans to "avoid new births of inferior quality and heighten the standards" of the country...
...Psychiatric Association last May, the issue of false memories was addressed in three sessions and heatedly debated by experts on both sides. The American Medical Association's house of delegates also indicated its discomfort with such memory-enhancement techniques as guided imagery, hypnosis and body massage, all of which heighten suggestibility and are widely employed by recovered- memory therapists. Use of these practices in eliciting accounts of childhood sexual abuse, the AMA delegates concluded, was "fraught with problems of potential misapplication...