Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where's Shakespeare? Sacred Earth Trust is managing a drama competition that begins on Earth Day in London. Playwrights are invited to submit scripts, videos or cassettes giving an environmental slant to religious stories...
...also offer to "inform readers of [the productions'] content." While underscoring your slant toward those who have not seen the production, this statement implies that a summary of "contents" is a substitue or supplement to actually seeing the performance. Plot summary, which takes up roughly a quarter of Adam Pachter's Endgame review, provides nothing more than theatrical Cliff's Notes, inadequate for readers who haven't seen the show, and redundant for those who have. If plot summary allowed you to understand two hours of performance, then drama would never have been invented, and Shakespeare would have been...
...into a 38-28 win. He put in an even more dramatic performance against Los Angeles on Dec. 11. With the 49ers trailing the Rams 27-10 and only a shade over ten minutes left to play, Montana first threw a touchdown pass to Mike Wilson, then dumped a slant pass to wide receiver John Taylor, who shook four tacklers and dashed for a 95-yd. touchdown. Less than three minutes later, All-Pro halfback Roger Craig scored on a 1-yd. plunge to give San Francisco a 30-27 victory. Said Rams Coach John Robinson of Montana: "I just...