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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pudding Show." Time and time again we hear "but we go to the theater for entertainment," spoken without the realization of what the demand for continually empty-headed entertainment implies about the culture and minds of the speakers. Perhaps the production of The Three Sisters on the mainstage will set a new trend for theater here. Failing that, lovers of theater as an artistic medium must await in hope the arrival of Mr. Robert Brustein...

Author: By Simon Goldhill, | Title: An Instructive Evening Of Harvard Theater | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...NCAA meet competitors set new American records in every event at Cleveland State. Last year, when the meet moved to the shallow-water confines of long Beach's Belmont Plaza pool, the swimmers broke only one of those records...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Scoring in Cleveland | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...alliance with the U.S. was architected by "capitalist roader" Teng, following Mao's death and the purge of the "gang of four", this is simply not the case. It was Mao himself who feted Richard Nixon in Peking in 1971 as the American "Christmas bombings" ravaged Hanoi. Mao set the stage for Teng to receive Treasury Secretary Blumenthal as Chinese troops attacked the city of Lang...

Author: By Alison Schorr, | Title: The Peking-U.S. Collusion in Vietnam | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH the set and staging focus on the sweeping, impersonal forces that deprive the characters of happiness, Sellars does not neglect the dense psychology of the play. In a flash of inspiration, Sellars enlisted Roy Kogan '80, to play Chopin preludes and nocturnes throughout Three Sisters. Kogan's forceful and sensitive musical interpretation adds new emotional dimension. Kogan and Sellars have obviously collaborated to fuse the music with the staging to intensify or soothe the action. In the opening of Act III, as a huge fire rages throught the town and the family's restrained tensions burst into open conflict...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Scott A. Rosenberg, S | Title: Unearthing Chekhov's Rhythms | 3/22/1979 | See Source »

Hans Tobeason's lighting helps to transform the entr'actes and set changes into complements of the action. In these transitions, the lights shade from lavender to deep blue to gray, mirroring the emotional metamorphoses from...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Scott A. Rosenberg, S | Title: Unearthing Chekhov's Rhythms | 3/22/1979 | See Source »

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