Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sellars chose a thrust, semi-arena stage for this production, bare except for white gauze strips concealing the huge number of props trotted out for each scene. While this staging does evoke the circus-like atmosphere Mayakovsky wrote into the play, Sellars does not overcome the audibility problems inherent in theater in the round. As the actors careen about the stage, whipping out their lines, each section of the audience gets to hear a few words, but no one hears the entire sentence. While this mayhem may be intended to suggest the decline of human sensitivity and individualism, it succeeds...
Moreover, they have testified before a number of Senate committees, prompting Senators "to initiate energy conservation proposals which might not have been proposed," Peter Smith, a staff member of the Senate Energy Committee, said yesterday...
...that point REMVEC sent out an order to electric companies in Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont to cut back on their electrical load by interrupting service to a large number of customers," Harprey added...
Does this gratify Austin? Yes-and no. He shudders that millions of youngsters in the world, including some in the U.S., are growing up malnourished, and a number of them are suffering irreversible damage to the brain. "So what we have is a closed circle of poverty, malnutrition and brain damage...
...Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin ∙ Wild Oats, Jacob Epstein...