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THERE ARE, first of all some problems of logistics. While set designer Kevin Roach's Scotland is convincingly stark and metallic, too many ramps and staircases reduce the downstage area to the size of a sandbox--no room for conspiracies here, much less natural movement. Craig Sonnenberg's costumes, though effectively timeless, look too much like Bill Blass designs for a Himalayan expedition. The Apollo XI footwear especially renders normal activity difficult...
...success was short-lived and Murton remains bitter about the state of American prisons. "You don't put a duck in a sandbox to improve his swimming. You can't reform with this system. How is a prisoner supposed to learn democracy and decision-making in a totalitarian, fascist system? And then everyone's surprised when an ex-con fails and winds up back in prison...
People exposed to the dust, even hundreds of miles away, suffered temporary discomfort: dry and itchy noses, throats and eyes. Reported a resident of Missoula: "I feel like someone popped my eyeballs out and rolled them around in a sandbox." But most of the ash particles were too large to lodge in human lungs and permanently scar them. Moreover, the dust did not stay in the air long enough to cause silicosis, which is a lung disease that miners, masonry workers, sandblasters and toilers in similar occupations get from breathing dust-laden air over long periods of time...
...having a child. A number of women who in their 20s concentrated on their careers decided in their 30s, as they began to contemplate the impending biological limit of their childbearing years, to have at least one child while there was time. Says Novelist Anne Roiphe (Up the Sandbox): "We're seeing a whole rash of people having babies just in the nick of time. There's a difference between what one says at 20 and what one says at 38." Roiphe persuasively argues that the dogmas against children-or at least, against having children-are undergoing revision...
...have been inclined to sigh ruefully at the inanity of a shampoo ad telling them, "You're not getting older, you're getting better," are starting to believe that it may actually be true. As for men, many of whom are still afflicted by a kind of sandbox nympholepsy-the women desired being a procession of "playmates"-more of them are now inclined to credit the experience of the Hungarian-born writer Stephen Vizinczey. In his 1965 novel, In Praise of Older Women, he wrote: "No girl, however intelligent and warmhearted, can possibly know or feel half...