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...dynamic and unique. The ingenious placement of a square platform tilted towards the audience like a baseball diamond symbolizes the off-kilter lives of the characters. The sparse furniture is obvious enough for the audience to readily identify the location of each scene. It's overall an efficient and prop-light production. The only distraction was the cigarette smoke that mysteriously floated away from the audience and upwards towards the ceiling behind the lights. Because the lighting is focused only on the platform, the introduction of such a moving element draws the audience's attention away from the interaction between...
...food laid out in the prop area before they set the table, and I just died! Come on, frozen corn? Iceberg lettuce? We're talking about the eighteenth century! But then it was fun to watch the prop guy come out and mess up the food like it had been eaten. And then once you get the distance and the camera angle, it didn't matter what was on those plates - he had the right look...
...YORK: The North Korean delegation left an historic preliminary round of multilateral talks aimed at formally ending the Korean War with a firm 'no comment,' saying saying they need more time to consider the prop osal. The daylong New York City summit stopped short of full peace negotiations, but provided the opportunity for the U.S. and South Korean delegations to lay out details of a plan proposed last April by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of South Korea to hold peace talks between the two Koreas, China and the United States. Despite North Korea's reluctance, the very...
Bill Clinton? Not on your life. I'm talking about Rutherford B. Hayes, a President brushed aside by history and used as the prop of a thousand Washington toastmasters searching for a cheap laugh over the past 120 years. Humorist Bob Orben says the name is melodic ("Chester Arthur doesn't make it"), and Hayes' dim place in the national chronicle makes him fodder for almost any joke. Washington visitor at the Hayes Inauguration in 1877: "Who was that man in front of you on the stand with his hand raised?" Senator: "I didn't catch his name...
...racial preferences is so intense it "seeps out of every pore" had registered his consulting firm as a black-owned business in order to keep state contracts worth more than $1 million (he says a state law compelled him to do so). And I found it wryly amusing that Prop 209's organizers picked Connerly as field marshal of their war on race consciousness precisely because of his race. The right-wing ideologues who crafted the California Civil Rights Initiative knew it was doomed if only resentful white guys seemed to support it. So they aggressively recruited Connerly...