Word: lavas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This play is written in smoking lava about a world that tastes like ashes...
...soil beneath it, proved trim enough to see the Imperial through the 1923 earthquake. But in the past four decades, as the water level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel is now "hideous, inconvenient, inadequate and a depressing eyesore...
Scientists established the age of the ancient skull by using the potassium argon method of dating an overlying lava flow, which is apparently 26 million years old. The location of the skull, 300 ft. below, indicated that it was about 2,000,000 years older. Aegyptopithecus, Simons believes, "stands near the very base of the genealogical tree leading to later Great Apes and man. It represents a major stage in the documentation of the forerunners...
...basaltic character of Surveyor's samples has strengthened the belief of many scientists that the floor of the Sea of Tranquillity was formed by extensive lava flow. Such flow, they say, could emerge only from a lunar interior that was-and could still be-hot and molten. The earthlike characteristics of the lunar surface also support the theory that the moon and earth were part of the same pre-planetary dust cloud when the solar system was young, but later split to go their separate ways...
...sheer drama of this play is so intense that it often makes the words of the script sound insignificant. The stage movement flows like burning lava. Babe is the rare director who can make a character say more in utter stillness than in long speeches. Time after time he strikes precisely the right movements, theatrical but true. His direction is smooth as a Rolls Royce and has the same quality of moving you without jarring you. When he uses shock, he uses it almost gently, to elict passion...