Word: playing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...integrated circuit nearly malfunctioned over the review of my worth as an electronic toy. My play value is for children and comes not from using my arms and legs "like a true robot," but from the science-fiction fantasy inspired by my electronic audio and visual effects...
...violent clash with the army that helped topple the country's military junta. Now the marchers, 15,000 strong from all political factions, swept through the streets of Athens with a more peaceful aim: to protest a grapeshot series of educational reforms known as Law 815. Trying to play it safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment: 100,000). But as it turned out, the students intensified their challenge by staging a takeover of the campuses for six days of marathon sit-ins. "Hands off the student union...
...years audiences have regarded Peter Pan as child's play. In fact, the work now enchanting a new generation on Broadway is not fantasy but tragedy. Nor is it, as the subtitle declares, about a "boy who wouldn't grow up." It is about a man who couldn...
...women-was more difficult. Sketching out a character, he noted: "Perhaps the curse of his life that he never 'had a woman.' " Whether that curse was autobiographical is moot, but In 1894, when he was 34, James did marry Actress Mary Ansell, the lead of his second play, Walker, London...
Barrie was now half a father, and fate soon gave him full title. Arthur died of cancer in 1907 and Sylvia followed him three years later, leaving the play wright as her boys' principal guardian. His care and kindness could not be faulted, but no indulgence could save the doomed family. George, the eldest, was killed in the trenches of World War I; Michael, the most brilliant, drowned at Oxford, possibly as the result of a suicide pact with another student; Peter jumped in front of a London subway train in 1960. As Birkin unfolds the darkening drama...