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...distinguishing characteristic of theater at Harvard is how practically any space can be transformed into a stage. The production of Lifeboat in the Cabot Underground Theatre is an example of this. The room is a small basement, not recommended for the claustrophobic. The eponymous hexagon-shaped boat eerily resembled a coffin without...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Lifeboat Floats, May Sink Audience | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...stage is a hexagon, not much larger than a cockfighting pit. Four playgoers apiece are seated in wire-meshed chicken-coop enclosures. Visually, the audience becomes ghostly to itself, a spectral collection of selves in limbo, seemingly bodiless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Death Is a Cabaret | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...court's bench. When Burger suggested redesigning it so that the Justices could see and hear one another better, he originally considered a V shape with himself at the apex. Other Justices resisted. The bench was ultimately bent in two places so that it now resembles a half hexagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Agreeing to Disagree | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

When the court reconvenes on Feb. 22, the sawed-up bench will be reassembled in the form of a half-hexagon. The purpose: to enable the venerable Justices to see and hear each other more clearly. No longer, in theory, will cases be delayed by two Justices asking questions simultaneously, or by the familiar request from opposite ends of the bench: "Would you state that again, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Hear, Hear | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...pavilion, Buckminster Fuller's 187-ft. geodesic dome. In front of it, across an arm of the St. Lawrence, the Russians are lavishing $15 million on a vast exhibition hall roofed with a wing curved as if for takeoff. All exhibitors chipped in $45 million for the hexagon-sided theme pavilions ("Man and His World") at left on the far island. For the combination of an inverted-step pyramid and a truncated pylon in the picture at left, Great Britain is ignoring austerity to invest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A GREAT FAIR COMING UP | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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