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...frames, turns out to be a series of projected slides that change with every scene. This clever technique, highly appropriate to the play's emphasis on sight and the technology of seeing, works especially well in the scenes with perspectives of grand interiors. Unfortunately, only those who are sitting smack in the middle of the theater get the full effect...
...musicians grumblingly nicknamed him "the French Correction," and some older subscribers yawn or go home early, but it is indisputable that Pierre Boulez, 48, has brought the orchestra smack into the middle of the century and given it a pristine technical polish...
...kill off one of the Prophets so that the other can take over. But their plan miscarries, and both Prophets as well as all of the plotters except the Bailiff end up dead. As you may suspect, the parallel to the original Christ story is a little like a smack in the face. Dramatically, though, it's a better play than Repeat Performance: there is one very good chase scene, and a few of the characters have a chance to become appealing individuals...
...property and covered 7,000,000 acres-an area slightly larger than Maryland. President Nixon ordered the Coast Guard Reserve to help with rescue and evacuation-the first time it has been mobilized in peacetime. Everywhere, the battle was being waged with rowboats, shovels and sand. On Kaskaskia Island, smack in the middle of the Mississippi 75 miles south of St. Louis, college students teamed with inmates from nearby Illinois' Menard state prison to shore up levees and prevent the historic site-Illinois' first state capital -from being immersed. The bridge linking the island to St. Marys...
...catch was Joe Cahill, 53, onetime Provo chief in Belfast and No. 2 man in the movement, who had dropped out of sight following the imprisonment of Provo Chief Sean MacStiofáin. Cahill and five other smugglers were unloading the arms from the coaster Claudia onto a fishing smack when the Irish warships fired warning shots across the Claudia's bow and then sent out a boarding party. All six Provos were later charged with conspiracy to import arms unlawfully; Cahill and two others were held without bail...