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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What millions of people have just seen is a demonstration of "psychic surgery." The blood had been donated by a volunteer before the show; the "diseased tissue" consisted of shreds of lamb heart, hidden in a tray behind the table and manipulated by the facile hands of a master magician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Sans light and sans props this is minimalism at its best,

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

The juxtaposition of these two stories as stage adaptations is a brilliant stroke of dramatic creativity, and the result is an effective representation of Gogol's strange genius. The cramped plainness of Leverett's D-entry basement (cleverly dubbed the "Gogol Space" for this production) is well-utilized in both...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Wins by A Nose | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

In an attempt to utilize effectively the space of the North House Dining Hall. director Blake Spraggins often stages scenes simultaneously on the upper and lower levels, with less than successful results. Actors meander aimlessly through the audience, pretending not to notice a love song being performed above them. The...

Author: By Lois Leveen, | Title: World-Weary | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

Tomas (Daniel Day Lewis) has an urgent demand, repeated to every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sex And Death in Czechoslovakia THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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