Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Margaret M. Cimino '87 is semi-conscious--able to respond to requests to lift a finger--said spokesman Kelly Anthony of Yale-affiliated St. Raphael's Hospital...
...process of peace. Neither government seems willing to remember that they govern countries of human beings who, given facts, would likely not be enthusiastic about the breakneck course on which things seem to be running. But, in the absence of intelligent, persistent and at least semi-public diplomacy, the only kind of diplomacy presently possible seems the silent diplomacy of bombs...
...Semi-legal activities over the years have included a 1908 incident in which Harvard Coach Percy Haughton reputedly strangled a bulldog in the locker room. The scene later proved to have been slightly amplified from Haughton's tying a papiermache canine to his car and dragging...
...music underscores the play's striking visual opening. The curtain rises on a bare stage with the entire cast sitting silently in a semi-circle, representing the suffocating constrictions of the tiny village society Yerma lives in. Yerma (Claudia Silver) lies isolated from the rest of the cast in the middle of half-moon, while a brief film by Carl Sprague flickers over her head...
...followed by a mystical and erotic scene that reaches to explain the mysteries of fecundity that evade and torment Yerma. Reach it does, but not quite far enough; while the symbolism and open sexuality of the Male and Female Mask is striking and effective, the closing of the semi-circle of cast members into a circle, which now excludes the audience, isolates and distances spectators who before had been drawn into the circle of Yerma's pain...