Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violators to maximum legal penalties of six months in jail and a $1,400 fine. The U.S. "welcomed and supported" the move, promised to ask U.S. companies and citizens to voluntarily comply. The London headquarters of Royal Dutch/Shell ordered the 20,000-ton tanker Staberg, carrying a cargo of Shell oil destined for Rhodesia to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, to change its course...
European housing often looks elegant from the outside, but much of it is backward in kitchen equipment, bathroom layout, floor plans, heating, plumbing and lighting-the innards that make the shell truly livable...
...Spingold Theatre itself can produce only admiration--even were it not for the contrast with its predecessor, the makeshift theatre which dissatisfied drama students labelled "The Shell." Spingold is actually a drama center: it includes classrooms, offices for the Theatre Arts faculty, a dance studio, and two small theatres. The main stage theatre itself seats 750 people and has a fully automatic lighting board and excellent acoustics...
...will be acted by a professional company, as will some of next year's shows. Whereas students emphasize that working with the professional cast has been a valuable experience, many fear that the new theatre will never offer students a chance to act; professionals never appeared in "The Shell." The review which appeared in the Brandeis newspaper Monday emphasized this serious and long-range problem. The Loeb has been criticized for demanding professional standards of students; the opening performance in the Spingold Theatre is not even allowing students to attempt to reach such standards...
Howard Bay's sets capture the gondola-and-moonlight atmosphere of Venice while avoiding the stereotyped gondolas-and-moonlight. The scenery is unusually attractive in its own right, particularly one shell-like backdrop--and yet it suggests the absurd opulence and greed which the play satirizes...