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...first, when an old lion of a man taps his way, tentative yet trying to be ferocious, toward the hospital bed at center stage. He removes wraparound dark glasses to reveal eyes that do not focus, that plainly cannot see. He fumbles, with slow majesty, to untie the sash of his robe. An audience cannot help feeling the brave pathos of the character and the star power of the actor. Unfortunately, at this point the play's dialogue begins, and the illusion of believability slips irretrievably away...
...many of the other allusions are more gratuitous. The costumes, for example, mix antiquity and modernity with no apparent purpose. Medea's children appear in sneakers, T-shirts and togas; Jason wears a suit with a classical sash. This juxtaposition seems to have little point except to remind the audience that this is a Serious Greek Tragedy...
Most SafeStreets volunteers comment that few of the callers are men. "There's definitely a lot of pride involved," says Dunster House SafeStreets recruiter Cornelia Tietke '91. Tietke added that to remedy the problem, the two foot escorts wearing reflective sashes carry an extra sash, for anyone who wishes to wear one and appear to be part of the service as they are escorted...
...different places from those he found is beyond dispute. How much of his personal triumph translates into durable accomplishment is far more debatable. But those doubts will be invisible as Reagan and George Bush ride to the Capitol together. For Reagan, the Inaugural puts the final adornment on the sash proclaiming him the era's most successful President, if only in political terms...
Talk about short honeymoons. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's newly elected President, was about to drape the sash of office over his shoulder last week when the disruptions began. As several hundred guests looked on in Mexico City's Legislative Palace, 139 legislators who supported Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the nationalist candidate who came in second in last July's elections, marched out. Then about 30 members of the right-wing National Action Party raised placards reading SIX YEARS OF FRAUD...