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...Sidey and Shaw also reported on the interplay between the visiting press corps and their hosts (see PRESS). After work on Wednesday 50 Americans tuned in on a soccer match between the Glasgow Rangers and the Moscow Dynamos. With Russian coaching, Americans quickly became vocal Dynamo rooters (the Scots won, 3 to 2). Friendliness was also found elsewhere. While walking through a Moscow market, Schecter was stopped by a woman shopkeeper and presented with a bouquet of tulips. "Moscow is at its best this week," he concluded, "and it's fun to be back...
...image making, some of Goffman's critics find him trivial and limited. "People just do not go around with their attention constantly focused on how they are being regarded," objects Berkeley Sociologist Herbert Blumer. All the same, Blumer considers Goffman "an innovative scholar" who "can take human interplay which appears humdrum and show it to be intricate, dynamic and dramatic." Indeed, Goffman's work may be not so much social science as social commentary. In the words of one behavioral scientist, "Goffman is the waste of a good novelist...
...conflicting characters of Jason and Medea provide the same interplay between real and fabulous. Medea, leaving her homeland with her new lower Jason, purposefully kills her brother and cuts him into pieces. These she carefully deposits in the path of her pursuing father, who must pause to pick up each bit and prepare it for burial. Thus she escapes with the eminently human Jason, a healthy young man who beds Medea with a cheeky grin at the camera...
...original script," says Coe, "because you have to convince your actors and really get them caught up in the newness of the thing and of course you have to convince the audience...Our friendship and mutual respect really have been important." From this relationship arises a sort of interplay between the different demands of loyalty to the script and of convincing production, an interplay which is like--well, not so very different from the dramatic kinship of matador and bull...
...Allman Brothers music was based to a great degree on the interplay between Duane's cutting blues-oriented slide and Dicky Betts's acid-oriented lead guitar. The group's music will have to change, but the shift in direction is not yet clearly visible...