Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After clinching the Republican presidential nomination in mid-March, George Bush seemed to disappear from the national stage. That low profile was fine with the cautious half of his campaign team. "The public isn't focused on the election yet," declared Bush's pollster, Robert Teeter. "This is a time for unifying the party, planning the convention, developing positions and reaching out to new groups...
...Middle East, it was a rare moment of restrained confrontation. There, on the stage of the Jerusalem Theater, sat Palestinian Professor Saeb Erakat and two colleagues rationally -- if grimly -- debating Arab-Israeli hatreds with four Israeli politicians. In fact, Erakat indicated that he was speaking his mind more freely than he normally felt he could in Israel. Why? "I think that here," he said, "I'm in ABC territory...
Prascak has the audience encircle the stage...
...show were it not for Adam Barr, who steals it from him. Barr, in the role of Tucker, the Gurney family manservant, injects the production with a dose of much-needed comic relief. As Tucker degenerates from perfect manservant to drunken, pitiable fool, Barr maintains his command over the stage and the audience...
...Stygian sky, the emotive content of the image (industry as Pandemonium) is at odds with the stolid execution. Few techniques could be less suited to depicting what is fugitive and mobile, like fire and smoke, than cutting silhouettes from roofing tar. Sultan leans toward the mummified sublime. His stage effects of glare and silhouette descend, remotely, from Turner. But he is so used to thinking in terms of figure and ground that he handles the transitions between them -- the midtones, the modulations of light -- clumsily at best...