Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...license to fly one, and you don't need an inspection to make sure it's safe. Many ultralights are elegant and airworthy; the plane featured in last year's movie Fly Away Home is a good example. But if you strapped a snowmobile engine and some plywood wings onto a lawn chair and got it to fly, the FAA couldn't stop...
...Trouble (Simon & Schuster; 875 pages; $32.50), by the late J. Anthony Lukas, strives to do more than just re-create the trial; it tries to hoist a whole world onto its shoulders--people, landscapes, buildings, ideas and all. Lukas, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Common Ground, his study of school desegregation in Boston, committed suicide last spring, reportedly in despair over the new book. He was a devastating critic of his own work, and Big Trouble shows the strains of this perfectionism. Branching off from the story of the trial and the theme of American class struggle are scores...
...against a background of corruption that makes the contemporary political scene seem virginal by comparison. The liveliest section describes the kidnapping of "Big Bill" Haywood and other union leaders by Pinkerton detective James McParland. Unable to extradite his prey legally from their Colorado headquarters, McParland abducted them, bundled them onto a train and ordered the tracks cleared all the way to Idaho. Such episodes of swashbuckling adventure bring out the crack reporter in Lukas as well as the showman, suggesting that what he relished about his story wasn't its intricate political subtleties but its moments of Wild West theatricality...
...tragedy in order to reconstruct the destroyed face and "exploded head" of the victim, so his mother's "dreams of her baby / in tuxedoed satin" can be fulfilled. Libert and Parker intersperse video of Smith's recitation of the poem with shadowy figures, discreet images of hands molding flesh onto the skull underneath and childhood playground scenes almost ominous in their innocence...
...design is artistically suggestive: the oppressive weight and opulence of Macbeth's medieval stone castles has been admirably conveyed by designer Roxanne Lanzot '99 with two moving arches, swinging doors, a pole and a curtain, a single rough-hewn dais at the back. And the shifting light cast onto the Loeb's backdrop pulls us quite compellingly into a world of perpetual twilight, as the pale red sun and the round white moon become difficult to distinguish from each other. The play also uses the simple but effective trick of a changing color palette to express a shifting emotional atmosphere...