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...mornings, wrote in an e-mail that she and co-workers peered out of their 18-story building after hearing of the fire, spotting a helicopter and some steam at around noon. “One of the patients’ parents came into the floor’s playroom and told us that there was a three-alarm fire at a building in Cambridge,” she wrote. According to MGH spokeswoman Valerie L. Wencis, 17 people were taken to the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. One of 17, Fidalgo was in critical condition and later died. Wencis...
...patients' parents came into the floor's playroom and told us that there was a 3 alarm fire at a building in Cambridge," she wrote. "I saw a helicopter flying over the [L]ongfellow [B]ridge...
...warning succinctly stated, “Technology’s a bitch.” However, the stories—and their juxtaposition—work most interestingly as an examination of fantasy and reality. “The Veldt,” in which a virtual-reality playroom takes over the lives of a family, and “To the Chicago Abyss,” about a man who remembers the past before an unstated cataclysm when doing so is a crime against the state, showed two sides of the imagination and its power...
...newest gee-whiz gadget that an overworked father of the “Father Knows Best” ilk (Jonah C. Priour ’09) gets for his parentally-neglected kids (Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 and Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09): a playroom which perfectly reproduces any place one could wish to go. It comes to represent the children’s resentment toward their parents, eventually allowing their emotions to take murderous form, despite the worries of their mother (Victoria J. Crutchfield ’10) and the intervention of a psychiatrist...
Much of the story of “The Veldt” takes place inside the playroom, with invisible landscapes and, often, only partially-visible actors. It is to the credit of the production that this state of affairs was, for the most part, not a problem. The room itself, designed by Todd Weekly, was constructed of translucent paper panes that allow shadows to be seen within, and was lit brilliantly by Ellie M. M. Campisano ’08 to reflect its imaginary scenes...