Word: marc
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Such a shift would end a pattern of vertical integration that has prevailed in petroleum since the heyday of John D. Rockefeller. Harvard Economist Marc J. Roberts argues that the indus try is dominated by vertically integrated firms because the action against Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. in 1911 did not go far enough. Instead of carving the empire into its functional parts-production, refining and marketing-Roberts says, "the Government split it along geographical lines, thus making every successor company vertically integrated." In fact, five of the charged firms -Exxon, Standard of Indiana, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield and Standard...
...settings, fashioned by Douglas Schmidt, and skilfully lit by Marc Weiss, are decidedly modern or futuristic. And electronic incidental music and odd sound effects have been devised by Pril Smiley. One might surmise that the result would be a mishmash. But the idea of putting 11th-century people dressed in 17th-century garb in 20th-century environments is perfectly viable. One of the play's major themes is the wrenching of things out of their accustomed habitats, the appearance of people in "borrowed robes," the distortion of time. And the text is full of references to strange sounds ("every noise...
With the help of Marc B. Weiss's lighting, our attention can be shifted from place to place quickly, and the play's momentum can go forward unimpeded. Aside from the solo verse Prologue and Epilogue, here omitted, the five acts of the text seem intact, and the show has a running-time of two hours and three-quarters...
Memories of his Russian youth float through the paintings of Marc Chagall like some well-loved dream. Although he has lived much of his life in France, he went on painting the rabbinical figures, village steeples, brides, bouquets, clocks and animals of Vitebsk. Back in the U.S.S.R. for the first time since 1922, the 85-year-old artist was visibly moved by an exhibition of his work, some of which has been kept under lock and key as too "formalist" for the Soviet censors. Did he remember the paintings? Tentatively touching his 1917 oil, The Wedding, Chagall replied with tears...
...MARC STUART KLEIN...