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...production takes the play out of its unreal "bare interior, grey light" and into a post-apocalyptic reality that manages to be much more effective and powerful than a 28-year-old musing on being and nothingness. The subway cars, the flickering overhead light, the crumbling walls and ceiling--they are all part of this, the post-industrial age. The set may be a product of the '80s, but it is as true to Beckett as he was to himself 30 years...
Last winter, however, the Faculty voted to pay MIT for the overhead costs incurred by Harvard ROTC student raising questions of Harvard's commitment to the 1969 actions...
...seat belts were buckled, the overhead compartments properly latched. The landing gear, however, was retracted: the Boeing 720 touched the ground hurtling on its belly at 170 m.p.h. Screeching along out of control, it rammed stanchions along the runway. Its left wing was ripped from the fuselage. Soon the plane was engulfed by an enormous fireball-and then a second fire. Not far from the crash zone, a crowd of witnesses, including Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, calmly watched the whole explosive episode...
...positions at traffic circles, machine guns at the ready. Armored cars growled to a halt at the edge of the slum areas in the southern part of the city. Along the dusty streets that honeycomb the shantytowns, rifle-toting soldiers were stationed every 100 yards. Meanwhile, helicopters clattered noisily overhead...
...show business trade papers with an illustration of one of the most famous sights in Southern California, the hill that displays the giant sign HOLLYWOOD. But where those nine letters should have been, an artist had superimposed seven different ones: FLORIDA. "Hollywood weather without Hollywood overhead," read the caption below...