Word: maze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. In these two one-acters, Britain's most provocative dramatist puts his characters in an enigmatic rat's maze where they twist, turn and stumble, seeking each other and the truth with absurd and terrifying results...
...transactions involving $200 million in U.S. currency. At the same time, many of its clients are Southeast Asian businessmen who are free to do business with Red China. (Since Hang Seng deals with the U.S., it cannot itself, under U.S. Treasury regulations, have dollar dealings with Peking.) Through a maze of companies as intricate as an ancient Chinese ivory carving. Hang Seng's chiefs move quickly in and out of speculations in everything from autos and duck feathers to rice and real estate. Smiles one Hang Seng executive: "Our ventures are calculated, very calculated risks...
Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...
...Viet Cong troops had not simply evaporated. Obeying Mao's first maxim, hundreds took shelter in the elaborate maze of tunnels that the Reds have dug in many parts of Zone D. Then, in line with Mao's second rule for terrorists, the Viet Cong promptly attacked the government's defensive outposts on the periphery of Zone D. Guns blazing, battalion-sized Red units simultaneously mauled three villages, inflicting severe casualties before disappearing into the surrounding rubber plantations at dawn's light...
...most impressive feat of Mr. Gill's work at Harvard did not concern the problems of shepherding individual students through the maze of requirements and restrictions which impedes their progress toward a degree. Rather, it was to supply much of the initiative for a rather fundamental revision in the College's tutorial programs...