Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kornetsky harvests what possibilties there are in the ambiguity of the work. There remains a lot of room for a director to interpret and experiment in a play so uncertainly structured. She does well in articulating the separateness of the scenes, which Wilson has ordered just arbitrarily enough to prove to skeptics that, yes, this is art. She is helped enormously by Wayne Kramer's set, which suspends translucent panes to suggest, in turn, a church, a court, a restaurant, or a porch; it simply but effectively divides up the stage to focus attention Kornetsky's tableaux. Reflecting...
...characters are left in affected poses, muttering cliches. But the softness of Morrison's prose when she describes the dreams of her characters, plus her sensitivity to the historical traditions that created Black America, save the novel from total affectation. The symbols which Black Americans use to interpret much of their lives do not only hold the identity of these characters, they release the best in Morrison's creativity...
...findings should contribute to the current policy debate by helping policy makers interpret the vote on Proposition 2 1/2 and better understand what Massachusetts citizens want in the way of changes in services, tax reform, and government operations," Helen F. Ladd, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, and the other researcher, said yesterday...
...recallable bombers and control aircraft into the air, and a series of conferences is held. "Routine" missile display conferences are held whenever U.S. satellites or radars are changed because these changes can upset the computer system. Missile display conferences are also held whenever there is uncertainty about how to interpret the computer displays...
...number of fierce advocates surround Ronald Reagan these days, all determined to carry out last November's election mandate. Each seems, however, to interpret the mandate as his very own, as an individual summons to overhaul his special part of the System. No one is more zealous than James Watt, 43, the lanky, brusque Secretary of the Interior. His soft voice and thick glasses make him seem a little like a benign mortician, but that could be misleading. For Jim Watt has all the self-righteous conviction of the born-again Christian that he is, and his goal...