Word: propsed
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Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who normally backs any proposal that helps farmers, believes that this one would only encourage them to produce for Government guarantees. Its effect, says Assistant Secretary Clayton Yeutter, would be to take the nation "back into the dark ages of farm policy." Indeed, for four decades...
But not in this novel. The universe here is the biggest of all big tops. Mercier and Camier are unwilling clowns in a performance they do not under stand. They are saddled with props - a reluctant umbrella, a sack, a raincoat and a bicycle - and trip helplessly into Alphonse-Gaston...
THE DESIGN of Cocteau's plays has been compared to the sparing, classic style of the profiles drawn by Picasso. The words he uses are simple and conversational, there are no elusive metaphors or philosophical musings in his script. The set is almost monochromatic and completely uncluttered, the few props...
THE REP'S PRODUCTION, and the first stage performance ever, of The Point suffers from the misbegotten mission of its creator. Esquire Jauchem's idea of adapting Harry Nilsson's musical fantasy to live theater is frustrated by the simple problem that the original fantasy has little to gain from...
The real problem is that the show isn't quite right for either old or young audiences, although Jauchem's invention of two sappy narrators (David Zuker and Susan Palmer-Persen) peeping around the props, winking earnestly at the audience and splitting up the dialogue between each other certainly lowers...