Word: shrouds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plays was directed by Alan Schneider; each lasts barely an hour, excluding intermissions; each offers an indelible evening of minimalist theater sorcery. The one visible magician is Whitelaw, for whom Beckett wrote the two sepulchral mood pieces Footfalls and Rockaby. Scraping across the stage or hardly moving in her shroud of a rocking chair, she performs daredevil isometric exercises of the soul. - By Richard Corliss
...scenario. The lighting and special effects heighten the audience's response to the performers. The incense and candles give the ceremony a profoundly mystical quality, as does the variegated "mondola"--an authentic Tibetan floor piece upon which the dance and communicate with one another. Particularly effective is the white shroud, which subtly, yet powerfully, identifies the rotating presence of death each time the actors alternate roles...
Only three months ago, the immense construction site at Indiana's Marble Hill nuclear power station alongside the Ohio River bustled with 8,000 workers. Now the cranes and earth movers at the plant stand idle, and a shroud of snow covers the project's jagged skeleton. Last week Public Service Co. of Indiana, Marble Hill's principal builder, announced that it would abandon the half-finished plant altogether. Marble Hill has already eaten up some $2.5 billion, making it the most expensive nuclear power project ever to be dropped. The decision brings the total number...
...that are technologically superior to those of all their challengers. Measuring 64 ft. 7 in. from its snub-nosed bow to its raked-back stern, Australia II has the most radical keel ever to hang from the bottom of a 12-meter-yacht*. Though the Aussies ostentatiously drape a shroud over the keel when the boat is hauled out after each day's sail-psych is everything in the America's Cup competition-just about all of Newport knows what Australia H's secret weapon looks like: it is bulging in the front, separates into delta wings...
This week's shuttle launch shows how the mystique and wonder which used to shroud America's journeys into space has all but dissipated. Grade schoolers surely were not glued to their TV sets yesterday morning to see coverage of the Columbia's lift-off as many of us were in the days of the Apollo missions with their seeming round-the-clock network coverage. And even the media, which rarely resists saturating degrees of reportage, has described the latest mission in unexceptional terms: The New York Times relegated a preview of Thursday's lift-off to page...