Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
Instead of hopping onto the corporate ladder, this year an increased number of graduating seniors are interested in working in public service, nonprofit organizations and governmental jobs, Leape said...
Middle-class baby boomers are overtaking the rich and elderly as the primary clients. Typically, 25 years ago, three-quarters of the customers were the wives of executives. Now half the women guests are themselves high up on the corporate ladder. They can afford the steep tariff, generally $1,500 to $3,000 a week, and consider it a necessity to get away when they are feeling frayed. Explains Michele Roskov, 27, a TV and film producer in Los Angeles: "It is an appointment with myself. The rest of the year is spent on appointments with everyone else." Another change...