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...production. This very modern minimalism sets the tone for the play’s bold updates.Created by Riccardo Hernandez, the set transforms the Loeb Mainstage into an isthmus between a divided audience, some of whom must cross the stage to reach their seats. The stage itself is a shallow sandpit surrounded by a metal mesh walkway. A catwalk runs high above one end of the stage which the actors reach by climbing ladders that are occasionally propped against it. Individual scenes are set, in part, by limited furniture, but mostly by an elaborate system of lights that descend from...
...Boston resident reported to CPD that at 1:15 a.m. at Pizzeria Uno in Harvard Square, he was approached by a group of males who asked if he wanted a ride and if he wanted to "get stoned." They dropped him off at a sandpit on Sherman Street and assaulted him. He was kicked in the face, but refused medical treatment for a bloody nose...
From the time he took up the long jump at age 11, Mike Powell showed great potential. But in his first 15 years of competition he had trouble making it to the far end of the sandpit. His jumps consistently measured in the 7.6-m- to-7.9-m range, more than a meter short of record-breaking territory. Then in 1988 he began improving rapidly. At the world championships in Tokyo last August, Powell came into his own. He bounded down the runway, hit the board and soared 8.95 m, eclipsing by 5 cm the "unbreakable" record set by America...
...March 5, 1957, the body of 15-year-old Schoolgirl Victoria Zielinski, her brains splattered about, was found along the bank of a sandpit in Mahwah, NJ. Within three months, Edgar Smith, 23, a knockabout machinist, was charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder. Eleven years later, challenging the death-house limbo record set by Caryl Chessman, Edgar Smith is still alive, fighting-and writing-for his life...
WOMAN IN THE DUNES. Trapped in a hovel at the bottom of a sandpit, a man and woman find that their hellhole offers the only real freedom in this luminous, violent allegory by Japanese Director Hiroshi Teshigahera...