Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN SIMON GRAY'S MELON OPENED IN London in 1987, it dealt memorably if imperfectly with the random, amoral way that glittering success and crippling insanity are doled out, sometimes to the same person. In compulsive revisions, the most recent of which, THE HOLY TERROR, opened last week off Broadway, the normally astute Gray (Butley, The Common Pursuit) has flung out the baby and preserved the bath water. Two ideas worked in the tale of a foppish, philandering publisher: narrating his decline in flashback, from the vantage of a man afflicted and now somewhat healed, which earned instant sympathy...
...would pay for his programs. Most of it, he says, would come from defense cuts. Some would come from raising the top rate on income-earners who make $200,000 or more. Some would come from a plan to trim (by attrition) federal employment rolls. Some random "waste" would be found and slashed. It doesn...
...plot summary reads as it plays: random and unconnected. The play really has no plot, but is composed of a long series of unconnected scenes, none resembling each other in either subject or characters, and all connected only by the massive dining table which stands forebodingly at center stage. The scenes are all independent of one another, but each uses the table as a medium between the characters of a particular scene...
...seems amazing now that there was a time when science was supposedly the "enemy" of faith, and religion was deemed hostile to technological investigation. The end of atheism and agnosticism became inevitable as soon as computer calculations made improbable the odds that random natural selection could be the sole explanation for the ever increasing intricacies found in biology. Equally influential was the discovery of multiple universes, which astronomers found at the macrocosmic level and physicists detected in the microcosmic. Science thus established the current Age of Faith, re-creating the Creator. Nowadays, only the fool says in his heart, "There...
...looked harmless enough: just another small asteroid, shaped so exactly like a peanut that the resemblance was almost comical. A few large impact craters, and hundreds of tiny ones, were scattered at random over its charcoal-gray surface. There were no visual clues to give any sense of scale, but Singh knew its dimensions by heart: 1,295 m maximum length, 456 m minimum width. Kali would fit easily into many city parks...