Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLAYS at Harvard were piled on top of each other in the Adams House courtyard--actors, producers, sets, lights, everything--it would be a big pile indeed, a swarming, undulating column of histrionic people reaching to the top of Holyoke Center. Thirty or so plays a semester is not bad for a college without a drama school or even a department to support...
...obviously theater is not dead, although there are those who think so. As that tall pile we left swaying in the wind still testifies, theater as an art is still around, on the strength of its one inviolable property, the one thing no film or television show can duplicate: immediacy...
...confirmed workaholic, North regularly puts in 16-to-18-hour days while in Washington. He dislikes paperwork, and once groused to a friend, "Every time a terrorist fires a bullet, we have to fill out a pile of papers." Colleagues quip that North's real power comes from two office computers hooked into the major U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies, and from a secure telephone line that he uses for classified conversations. For his own protection, the slender officer is rarely photographed or quoted in news accounts. "He is there to serve the President, and that is it," a colleague says...
...festivities died down and the visions began to fade away, people heading home from their brush with Reality saw that same vaguely bovine pile of rubble hoisted to the top of a large inscribed cylinder in the center of Columbia's quad. The light shining down upon it from the eminence of the Columbia Library gave it the ridiculous appearance of a sacrifice...
...While it was in progress, Regan and eight aides were sketching the next steps in what flowered into a publicity blitz unprecedented in this Administration. Its purpose: to persuade the U.S. and the world to emulate the optimistic child in one of Reagan's favorite jokes who finds a pile of manure in his room on Christmas morning and begins shoveling away, convinced that "there must be a pony here somewhere...