Word: phenomenon
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What happens in theater happens right there. It is not a record of past actions but an ongoing phenomenon which at its best will grab the audience and make them live it as well. A movie deals in what has already happened. The theater's realm is potential: what may happen, to the story, to the actors, to you. Properly used, the physical proximity of play and playgoer can be exploited to create heights of humor and terror, tension and relief, of which no other medium is capable. Theater is dangerous. That is its strength...
...Harvard Phenomenon...
Marius calls Doolittle "our phenomenon," since he teaches his students to write so well. Last year, all three of the entries from Doolittle's class were printed in Expose, the magazine published by Expository Writing...
...said, he meant the tendency of U.S. corporations to become similar to the Government bureaucracies that company executives frequently deplore: "bloated, risk averse, inefficient and unimaginative." Corporate raiders, Darman added, "are gaining attention as a new kind of populist folk hero, taking on not only big corporations but the phenomenon of corpocracy itself...
Women who work or live together tend to get their menstrual cycles in sync. That curious phenomenon, known for years by scientists and many ordinary folk, has long been suspected as an indication that humans, like insects and some mammals, communicate subtly by sexual aromas known as pheromones. Last week Philadelphia researchers weighed in with two reports showing that scents, including underarm odors, do indeed affect menstrual cycles...