Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were unfortunate in that we caught a very good team at its peck," explained Shattuck...
...concrete and vivid; when characters speak from within the set a maze of scaffolding covering the back wall, skillful lighting and mime make their spaces substantive rather than symbolic. Rather than trying to fill the vast mainstage with gimmickry--as direction after director has done--Magaril and choreographer Sabrina Peck simply fill it. Good blocking spreads actors to keep the open spaces under control. The full-company numbers sparkles with movement, much of it painstakingly researched to mirror actual on-the-job motions, an astonishing proportion of it in synch. And in Magaril's boldest visual effect, four-foot-square...
Secrets of the Shopping Mall, award-winning Author Richard Peck's ninth Y.A., satirizes teen class structure and cliquishness. Teresa and Barney, a pair of inner-city runaways, discover a society of boys and girls living secretly in a department store. This "Lord & Taylor of the Flies" is surrounded by specialty shops like Audio Jungle, the Tennis Connection and a place advertising CANDLES IN SHAPES YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF. There, the urban dropouts learn the value of independent thought, honest employment and all-natural fabrics. They also can identify suburbanites: "It looked like an oversized praying mantis...
...move was promptly attacked by a coalition of outraged insurance companies and various consumer groups, which petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to overturn the action taken by Peck and the NHTSA. The coalition told the court that passive restraints could save some 9,000 lives a year on the nation's roads and highways...
...June a three-judge panel ruled that the Government had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in repealing the regulation and gave the safety agency 30 days in which to substantiate its actions. When Peck failed to satisfy the court, it overruled the agency and ordered the enforcement of the passive-restraint rule to proceed...