Word: maze
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Understanding Cambodia has always seemed like trying to put together a three-dimensional jigsaw of morality, politics and geography. Some pieces are missing, some are scuffed and torn beyond recognition, some bent completely out of shape; a few fit nowhere at all. The picture appears to show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...nobody can work the darn thing -- at least for anything besides plunking in a movie from the corner video store. Much of the befuddlement, understandably, afflicts older folks who have never really cottoned to the computer age. But many younger, technology-savvy people also seem utterly defeated by the maze of buttons and pages of instructions. Authoritative statistics are not available, but estimates are that as many as 80% of all VCR owners have never learned how to set their machines to record a program...
Military officials have legitimate complaints about the difficulties of working with the maze of federal and state regulations, and with the bureaucracy that enforces them. The Pentagon also contends that the EPA's standards are too exacting. "EPA would have us restore the world cleaner than God made it," complains a Pentagon official. Even dedicated environmentalists are beginning to say some cleanups need cost-benefit analysis. "There comes a point when the investment is simply too great, considering the tiny risks involved," says Lewis Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment. Perhaps. But considering the scale of military...
Interspersed among the songs is a series of phone conversations between Prince and an intrepid reporter named Vanessa Bartholomew, sportingly played by Cheers TV star Kirstie Alley. "Why do you pretend to be a maze?" she asks in exasperation. "I'm amazed at your beauty," Prince replies. But his real answer seems to be in the lyric of My Name Is Prince, in which he declares, "I know from righteous I know from sin/ I got two sides and they're both friends...
...there are heroes in this play, they are undoubtedly directors Julian von Loesch and Richard Eoin Nash. Excluding the excessive dead time between scenes, the directors professionally guide the 13 actors through their maze of lines, dance, music and movement...