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Word: raffia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane down every aisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: Sound & Fury | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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