Word: maze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...having so many characters half-mad and hiding from each other must have been a nightmare to coordinate. Nevertheless, the Loeb Ex production does a splendid job, especially considering the small performance space with which they have to work. Set Designer John Gordan '01 manages to create a maze of fourdoorways and an onstage discovery space throughwhich the actors may roam--and all within theconfines of a theater the size of a Harvard commonroom. Although the audience near the back issometimes forced to stand in order to see some ofthe downstage scruffling, it is more a testamentto the engrossing action...
...years in the making, the new Getty Center, a complex of museums, gardens, auditorium and art research institute and its uniquely manicured space dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that they their spiked, vertical forms resonate with the skyscrapers visible on Wilshire Boulevard...
...ever since the Dec. 27 murder of Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (L.V.F.), a fringe paramilitary group that is staunchly opposed to the interparty peace talks under way in Belfast. Wright, a hotheaded, macho killer, was gunned down in a daring execution-style murder inside the Maze prison by members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a violent Catholic splinter organization that is also strongly opposed to the talks, and has never agreed to join the cease-fire agreed to by the I.R.A...
British Secretary of State Mo Mowlam has always shown a keen ability to cut through seemingly intractable problems with bold strokes, and her highly personal, risk-taking style has once again paid off. In an unprecedented visit to jailed Protestant terrorists inside the top-security Maze prison, she convinced the Protestant paramilitary groups to remain committed to peace talks for Northern Ireland. That means negotiations will reopen as scheduled on Monday with representatives present from both the pro-British Protestants and Sinn Fein...
...Dogs and Englishwomen Mo Mowlam keeps Northern Ireland peace talks on track with an unprecedented visit to the Maze prison...