Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited repertory of traditional Peking operas was being performed regularly in most of China's theaters. Then Madame Mao got busy undermining the works. Convinced that the arts should "protect our socialist economic base," she personally supervised the creation of new "revolutionary" librettos that would convert the opera stage from esthetic to political purposes...
...mammoths as Xerox, RCA and Po laroid were entered in the race. Yet last week, in a preview at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, St. Paul-based 3M Co. (formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) was the first to break from the gate. When the gold curtains parted on the stage of the hotel ballroom, 3M proudly revealed two prototypes of a copying machine that can faithfully reproduce in color...
Like most gothic romancers, Author Oates puts her really sinister touches of evil into her stage setting rather than her characters. The villain in the end is that old devil, bad environment. Trapped in an imitation-British boys' school among 13-year-old alcoholics-wizened little gnomes like himself-Richard joins his parents a little prematurely as one of the "doomed" and "damned...
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...nothing, after all, is potentially everything. "Studying the Puritans or watching you try to figure me out, Sabel," he once said, "are just ways of playing god." Sometimes he imputes his powers of negative capability to everyone around him, so that nothing is for real and everyone is on stage. "A lot of radical activity is street theater," he insists, "Its people acting...