Word: prop
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...however, nicely benefits from such deliberate treatment. In the first scenes, each prop on the stage is in its proper place, with the rifles and pistols hung on the wall and the coat rack holding the Captain’s tunic. With time and the Captain’s growing madness, the order within the set begins to slacken. By the end of the second act, when the Captain throws a desk lamp at Laura in rage, the room has begun to slip into disarray...
Policies to prop up the steel industry in the United States are understandable and laudable; steel is a vital national security resource, and it is imperative that the U.S. be able to produce its own steel in a time of war. The key to saving the steel industry, however, is not to prevent competition, but rather to seek ways to make the steel industry in the United States more efficient and more competitive. Direct government aid to the steel industry could spur the struggling companies to reduce production costs and increase competitiveness on the global market. The development...
...personal-computer giant) and IBM (a leader in tech services and server computers). But certain key shareholders--including the children of HP's garage-dwelling founders and geek-world deities Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard--think the proposed merger is the equivalent of two stumbling drunks trying to prop each other...
...front door. Before he goes dancin? in the rain, he kisses Debbie goodnight at her front door, and does it without bending any part of his body - just leaning, as if he were wearing clown shoes for balance. Then he goes into his act. He?s got one prop, an umbrella, and his dance exhausts its every use: as a cane, a pointer, a balancer on the tightrope of a curb, a cyclotron whirling him inside a whirlwind. But often he just holds it - who needs protection from the elements when you?re in love? "Come on with the rain...
...community where everyone is treated as a prop, no one person thinks of himself as such, for to an individual we are all our own playwrights. We place ourselves at the center of the drama, scripting roles for other people but ultimately casting them to the periphery of our own performances...