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...surprised them on the job. A grotesque scene ensued. Wrote Solzhenitsyn: "In the small structure, where three or four can barely turn around, there were about ten of them. They bound Gorlov, dragged him face down into the woods, and beat him cruelly. Simultaneously, others were running by a roundabout route through the bushes, carrying away packages, papers and objects-perhaps parts of the apparatus they had brought with them...
...with nuances of class and caste, and the pitfalls and pratfalls of making social errors. Nowhere is this truer than in English comedy, or more enjoyably so than in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. This 18th century classic, now being performed at off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater, revolves entirely around conditioned social-status reflexes...
Uncle Vanya is a tale of stunted, shunted, desiccated lives. "Can these bones live?" one might ask of the characters. They do in this lovingly fleshed-out revival of the play by off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater, under its able and adventurous director, Gene Feist...
...stone from large boulders and roll some smaller boulders down the crater's side (the tracks will give earthbound scientists an indication of the mechanical characteristics of lunar soil). At the end of three hours, if all has gone well, the astronauts will be allowed to take a roundabout route home, including further sampling stops at nearby Weird Crater, which was named for its unusual shape, possibly the result of three or more overlapping meteorite impacts...
...enshrined in Webster's Dictionary as an adjective for a method or contraption. Rube Goldberg, who died in New York last week of cancer at 87, saw his name entered in Webster's: a rube goldberg contrivance, says the Third New International edition, accomplishes "by extremely complex roundabout means what actually or seemingly could be done simply...