Word: shallowing
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...unit set designed by John Wright Stevens is a curtained belvedere that does not lend itself well to the different locations called for in the play. Most of the Brandeis stage is unused, since the set is placed so far forward. The playing area is unduly shallow and so steeply raked that it must be difficult to move about on. The cast must, to use Macbeth's words, feel "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd." Perhaps the Lake Forest stage is unusually small; but if so, some adjustment ought to have been made here by pushing the set back...
...trying to suppress the midnight carousers by saying, "Are you mad? Or what are you?," he can make the word what sound perfectly awful-similarly, in a later scene, when he brands them "shallow things." In the Letter Scene, Malvolio reads the sentence, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve." I must confess that I always enjoy seeing the actor foolishly turn around (as Rabb does), although in Shakespeare's day the word revolve meant simply consider, and had not yet taken on the modern meaning of rotate...
...anyone likes this insipid tale of a hip New York couple that hits the skids for no apparent reason. Jill Clayburgh is appealing but not too good as the put-upon protagonist who is suddenly forced to restructure her shattered life. All in all, An Unmarried Woman presents a shallow and almost unbelievably simplistic view of the problems of divorce. The only saving grace is a wonderful bit by Alan Bates as the new lover. If you have to see it, go for the last half--that's when Bates traipses...
...compromise appears likely. The Administration has given up trying to beat Steiger, and is instead seeking to keep shallow any cut in capital-gains taxes. The hottest prospect is a reduction in the maximum rate to 35%. Meanwhile, the whole episode has shown politicians once again how deeply Americans have come to resent taxes. Says Richard Rahn, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, a lobbying group for lowering capital-gains rates: "Support for Steiger is coming not from the fat cats but from middle-income people yelling 'I want a chance to make...
...mile-long glacier originates high in a watershed east of Valdez, where it is fed by massive snowfalls. From there, it flows inexorably down toward Columbia Bay, where it terminates on a shoal across the fjord in shallow water. Like all glaciers that end at the sea, Columbia continually "calves" or drops chunks of ice off its face as it moves forward. This process can speed up dramatically when changing climatic conditions cause a glacier to begin thinning out. This decrease in thickness can destroy a glacier's delicate equilibrium and radically increase calving in a process called "drastic...