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...singing of the chorus was prerecorded on tape and played by Nono from a console in the orchestra pit. To open the second act he played a mixture of electronic music and voices shouting "the absurdities of life," alternately ricocheting the sounds through eight speakers ringing the auditorium. In the final minutes, Nono's tape machine broke down, and he had to pull the tape through by hand. At performance's end he stood knee-deep in tangled tape like a partially unraveled mummy...
Console in the Pit. For one scene there was a nightmarish montage of "scenes of injustice"-a Negro lynching, street riots, the desolation of Hiroshima, decaying bodies stacked in graves -flashed on dozens of various-sized screens, some dropped from the flies, others held aloft by the chorus in a jigsaw pattern. While the words "And you? Are you blind like a herd of cattle?" appeared on one screen, the TV cameras raked the audience and projected their faces onstage in self-conscious closeups...
...been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque. "Worse'n a real prison," says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it, "as sane as anybody but labeled crazy are stuck here in this snake pit with no chance o' gettin...
...insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron's pit...
...does Bristol-Myers do it? Schwartz, a balding and white-fringed executive of 58, runs the company by several credos. One is to blanket three expansive consumer markets-prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and beauty preparations-with Bristol-Myers products. Another is to pit the company's major divisions against one another by bringing out several types of the same product; thus Bristol-Myers markets a variety of hair tonics (Vitalis, Score, Fitch, Vitapointe), cold pills (Bromo-Quinine, Clinicin, 4-Way) and deodorants (Mum, Ban, Trig). Still another Schwartz principle is to stimulate in his subordinates what...