Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 70% of victims, the first sign is a rash that often looks like a bull's-eye -- white in the center and red on the outside. It erupts up to a month after the tick bite, and is sometimes accompanied by fever, stiffness and extreme lethargy. At this stage, the infection is easily cured with common antibiotics, like tetracycline. Left untreated, however, more serious symptoms may develop as the spirochete makes its way into the brain (18% of cases), the joints (57%) or the heart (10%). Correctly diagnosed, even these complications can usually be reversed with large doses...
...Ames upset prepared the stage for Robertson's Tuesday press conference announcing the success of his yearlong petition drive. Standing before a pile of what he said was 3.3 million signatures, Robertson declared, "The people are urging me to run." He will, he said. The formal announcement is scheduled for Oct. 1 in New York City...
...concluding a successful series of talks with the Soviets, the Reagan Administration, represented by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, was preparing to accelerate a program that the Soviets consider a major obstacle to arms control. Weinberger has decided that the Strategic Defense Initiative will graduate to the Milestone I stage, a Pentagon term meaning that the system is ready to pass from "exploration" to "demonstration." Star Wars, so far tested mostly in theory, will move beyond the blackboard and toward the battlefield...
...other actors succeed in creating realistic characters even before the show begins as they ad lib in character on the stage while the audience is being seated. Later, when 22 of them are talking at once, the actors reinforce their characters through gestures, imaginative costumes, and for Tara Dolan's world-weary hooker, lots of perfume...
...been written by someone else. After a rehearsal he exclaimed, "I think the music is so marvelous -- I really don't believe I wrote it!" Gershwin's appetite for popularity, says his biographer, took him even further from the critics; he could never quite forsake the Hollywood sound stage for Carnegie Hall. When a producer accused him of aiming too high, Gershwin sent a reassuring message: "Rumors about highbrow music ridiculous . . . am out to write hits...