Word: stage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Setting the Stage...
...patrons are furious over the government's plan to lower France's legal workweek to 35 hrs. from 39. From a central stage lighted up like a boxing ring, speaker after speaker denounced the legislation as "retrograde," "idiotic" and "criminal." "This law is antieconomic," thundered Ernest-Andre Seilliere, head of the main employers association. "Nobody can make more by working less!" Truer to form, the Confederation Generale du Travail, one of the country's largest labor unions, was leading tens of thousands of workers in protest marches across the country, demanding that the law even mandate the hiring...
...stage, brother and sister Marc and Sharon were as disturbingly huggy as they are in the video for "Steal My Sunshine." Aside from that, the three guys scrambled around gamely, while Sharon was content to remain anchored in place while bobbing up and down. Len seemed genuinely shocked at their warm reception--in the encore Marc remarked that they usually don't have to come out again because, "we're running out the back 'cause they're chasing us away." I don't necessarily blame these hostile crowds--what if you went to Britney Spears and got Wu-Tang...
Reports surfaced last week that officials of the Loeb Drama Center and the Harvard University Art Museums have discussed moving the American Repertory Theater (ART). Such a move would free up the Loeb Mainstage, Harvard's professional-quality stage space, to be re-dedicated full-time to its original purpose as an undergraduate performance space...
...feeling from the first page to the last that they're back in the first decade of the century. So it couldn't be more different than the approach I took writing about Ronald Reagan. And the method I took with Ronald Reagan grew directly out of his own stage personality...