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...Salovaara made the strategic error of trying to produce this play in the round. He ends up, however, with too little space for his platforms, forcing the actors to scoot around furniture at the edges or break the illusion by stepping off and on the stage. And all for nought. A large couch blocks out a fourth of the audience during the play's second half. Badly focused lights blind another fourth. Choose your seats carefully for this...
...this year's five early season victories--which seemed to mark a complete turnaround from last year's effort--may go for nought if the laxmen don't turn around from Saturday's performance...
...turned out, their planning went for nought. At 8:15 p.m., NBC anchorman John Chancellor looked up from his script, shook his head in amazement and told the American people that they had already elected a president--and his name was Ronald Reagan...
...golden opportunity to score seemed to go for nought when Paul Connors lunged into the line and went nowhere and Buckley missed on a pair of passes--the second a strike to tight end Linus O'Donnell, which he dropped...
...might distract them from the job of forecasting the 1980s.) Still, a certain amount of carefully aimed derision is justified in a world increasingly buffeted by overblown future schlock. Most of all, it is useful to try to understand why the predictions about the 1970s so often came to nought...