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...accentuates a theme of voyeurism that begins with the narrator looking out of her window, describing her neighbors, and continues when several people in a waiting room crowd around a private therapy session. But the truly amazing scene in this piece shows several friends walking across an ice-covered pond, discussing in detail what happens to the human body when it falls in freezing water. Suddenly the ice cracks, everyone falls through and both cameras cut underwater to the murky darkness. I was immediately hit with a strong feeling of suffocation, a very powerful effect considering my seat inside...
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a descent into the dark, twisted world of George and Martha (Robert Fuller and Anna Pond '00), is not for the faint of heart. The couple's disordered living room (transplanted to the Leverett Old Library Theatre) is ground zero for stinging wit, viscous revelation and absolute psychological warfare. Within the confines of their house, nestled in a quiet New England college town, an associate professor of history and his wife, the daughter of the university president, create an alternate reality for themselves and all who enter. Their lives...
...when the Haggerty is closed, the soccer, baseball, tennis and basketball facilities by Fresh Pond serve as an alternative neighborhood hangout...
...life might hang on for a long time--say, by extracting gravitational energy from black holes. But trying to make a living once everything has subsided to pretty much the same temperature--a tad above absolute zero--is like trying to run a water mill on a dead-still pond...
...pretty straightforward. The earth lurches from time to time because its outer shell is broken into 11 huge, solid plates floating on a layer of molten rock that has the consistency of Silly Putty. These tectonic plates are constantly jostling each other, like rafts crowded into a small pond, and it's along the boundaries where they meet that most quakes are born. The two plates that form California's infamous San Andreas Fault, the Pacific and the North American plates, are the largest on Earth. And they're moving inexorably in opposite directions...