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...staged? Or does that power fall to the director, the man or woman who is to bring the playwright's story to life? Is the theater a cousin of literature, where the text retains the right of ultimate authority, or does it exist in a different realm, one where the particulars of visual experience can take precidence over the sacredness of words...
...better or worse, playwrights can never avoid telling a story when they put pen to paper, and if their realm of authority extends only so far as spoken dialogue, then they will have no choice but to tell entire stories through dialogue alone. On top of this a director will then add his or her own visual story in the visual language that Artaud holds so dear. Combining these distinct layers of narrative-one conceived in words by a person at a desk, the other conceived in images by a person in a theater-into a single performance...
...constituencies most affected by economic decision-making should have a voice in shaping those decisions. The overall impact of the publicity created by the Seattle demonstrations - and no doubt, the Washington, D.C., round - has certainly been to shift policy issues typically confined to economic experts into the wider realm of public debate...
After a while, I could no longer rationalize my fear of entering that scary senior floater realm, not if it meant the chance to have something much better. So I sucked up that pride and e-mailed a couple of people who've shared my House for nearly two years, girls I'd smiled at daily but never really talked to. I found people I was really excited about talking to. I also got two names that revealed nothing more than that slip I received before freshman year--a little scary but mostly exciting. They might be dorky, obnoxious...
...which the Holocaust has been 'marketed' and used in support of contemporary political goals," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "As difficult as that notion may be for some people to engage, it's an important and reasonable topic for discussion. A ruling that excludes Irving from the realm of legitimate historical scholarship creates more space for serious discussion among academics who accept the basic truths of the Holocaust, but who're asking important questions about the ways in which its legacy may be used or misused...