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...halftime, about 40 MIT students, disguised as Yale band members, rushed onto the field, lay down, and used their bodies to spell out the name of their school...
...Hebrew, figures can be expressed by letters of the alphabet. The combinations of letters that represent larger numbers may, coincidentally, spell out words. A while ago, Israeli Cultural Affairs Minister Zevulun Hammer must have flipped a few months ahead in his calendar book. To his surprise, he found that the letters of the next year on the Jewish Calendar--5744, which starts next fall--spell out in clear-as-day Hebrew "destroy...
...fact, Hammer's proposed reform is propitious for a second reason. The new configuration for next year would spell out, conveniently enough, both "the bad spirit is dead" and "beautiful fields...
...Good blocking spreads actors to keep the open spaces under control. The full-company numbers sparkles with movement, much of it painstakingly researched to mirror actual on-the-job motions, an astonishing proportion of it in synch. And in Magaril's boldest visual effect, four-foot-square letters spell out WORKING in crimson light, transforming Jonathan Lemkin's harmonious set into a glorious spectacle...
Singling out segments, though, becomes counterproductive in view of Magaril's strategy and art. Using his actors, his musicians, his softened spotlights as mortar and stone, he builds and builds until the overpowering structure needs no outright message to spell out its devastating vision and power. This reviewer, at least, has never before caught herself sobbing at a Harvard play...