Word: magical
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PLAYWRIGHT Luigi Pirandello shattered the stage conventions of an era with his 1921 masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author. He held up the magic mirror of theatre to theatre itself, thus reversing Shakespeare's dictum that "all the world's a stage." Pirandello's six characters broke down the barriers separating art from ordinary life and, in the process, exposed the inadequacies of both...
...many other playwrights. Pirandello's dramaturgy contributed significantly to this new form of theatre--his acceptance of the stage for what it was, his knowledge that it did not need to be a true-to-life copy of the real thing. He saw the stage as a place of magic and illusion...
...called The Wise Little Hen, and Donald Duck is still in fine feather. To celebrate the birthday, Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., has planned a summer-long salute to the irascible star, featuring 50, yes sir 50, real live ducks that will waddle along with Donald through the Magic Kingdom on at least three outings during the next month. Of course, it takes an odd duck to be fooled by a fellow in a funny suit. So the Disney folks painstakingly trained the Pekins to accept the costumed canard as the next best thing to Mom. Last week Donald...
...main plot, about the search for a sacred stone stolen by a coven of Indian thugs and used to augment sadistic black-magic rituals in the bowels of the temple of doom, need not concern us here. Suffice it to say that the new film is more an embellishment than an improvement on the snazzy Raiders. If you enjoyed seeing skeletons rise on spikes, or Indy snap his trusty bullwhip around a steel-willed woman, or the two of them trapped in a cave with uggy crawling things, you should be amused to see them again. Again you will savor...
Actually, sexual harassment is not that difficult to recognize. Sexual harassment is a professor talking about having a "magic tongue." It is grabbing a student's breast or lying on the floor and staring up her skirt...It is not, in the vast majority of cases, ambiguous behavior. It is not, as some imply, a figment of a students' imagination or a weapon women use to damage men's reputations. These worries are usually expressed by men and women who have had little experience dealing with harassment cases or who impose confusion on themselves...