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...lost on the mammoth stage, this scaled-down version of Eugene Lee's foundry set hovers overhead preventing any air from invigorating the denizens of London's sordid slums. Ken Billington's lighting generally succeeds where the score fails by sharply evoking the character's moods. Piercing spotlights heighten Sweeney's agonizing inner turmoil, while a stupefying pinkish orange haze overpowers mottled ground tones to emphasize the community's moral desolation and confusion. Flashes of sunshine intrude briefly, but the furnace's Hellish red glow settles on Fleet Street and damns it irrevocably...
...record, Carter too often contradicted himself, and then had to explain what he really meant. Language ultimately was cheapened and meaning diminished. The Carter White House echoed with so much talk that it finally became a bore. Presidential restraint of tongue might restore some credibility to talk and heighten the impact when the right moments come for the Chief Executive of the nation to sound off to the people...
...Harvard University Police Monday began their move from the basement of Grays Hall to their new headquarters at 29 Garden Street--a change that will "heighten Quad security," Saul L. Chafin, chief of University Police, said this week...
...question this week. Says Air Force Major General Acker: "At the very least, some form of registration is necessary to provide a ready pool of people to call on if needed." In addition, according to Major General Maxwell Thurman, head of the Army's recruiting command, registration "will heighten the 18-year-old's awareness of the Army...
Quebec is not Canada's West Bank, nor is it Canada's Biafra, as some American analysts have suggested. And the U.S. would not prove an effective mediator were the tension between the independentistes and the federalists to heighten, as one U.S. daily editorialized. The 83-per-cent turnout in last week's referendum provides ample proof that Quebeckers care about their province's destiny. Whether that fate lies in what Levesque terms Quebec's "rendezvous with history" or whether the path followed will be Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's "renewed federalism" remains foggy...