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Nothing quite compares to the feeling of walking over the ground strewn with apples. The sound of apples crushing underneath your feet as you walk up to a tree and start pulling off one Red Delicious after another, a red ladder (probably planted there by the orchard owner to make it look more quaint) leaning against an apple tree, lugging half a bushel of apples back...
...climbed up the ladder, but it wasn't sturdy enough. (Further proof that it really was put there for quaintness). She pulled branches down to snag the best apples. She picked them off the ground. She tossed them at the two of us who weren't quite as interested in apples as she. But we caught them and added them to the bulging paper sack we had picked up from the owner of the orchard...
...London production's metaphoric intentions are evident the moment the audience sees the backdrop. A lurid, scrawled red line divides a vista of white-capped mountains and a blue sky with clouds from a rough black collage below, inset with garbage cans, pails, tires and a metal ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys...
...this is splendidly orchestrated in quickstep tempo. Aliens never forgets that its basic business is escapist, provided, of course, that your idea of escape is to give yourself over to a 2-hr. 17-min. movie that takes you up the ladder from apprehension to anxiety to fear to flat-out horror. Those big bugs are smart in their yucky way, and they are everywhere. Each time one of their human opponents opens a door or rounds a corner, you know terrible trouble is about to ensue. Anytime someone confidently announces what looks to be a foolproof plan to exterminate...
...provincial roots. The daughter of an innkeeper in the hamlet of Petresti, she joined the Communist Party in 1937 at the age of 18. She met Nicolae two years later, when she was elected queen of the parade at a May Day celebration. As Nicolae climbed the political ladder, Elena rose as well. When her husband assumed party leadership, she was quickly named director of the Bucharest Central Institute of Chemical Research, and today she is also chairman of the National Council for Science and Technology. Yet her technical background and competence are widely questioned in academic circles...