Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowell House Music Society presents Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro tomorrow night and Sunday night in the Lowell House Dining Hall. Benjamin Loeb '89 conducts this unusual performance in which the orchestra is sequestered behind the stage, and the actors are directed via closed circuit television. Tickets are limited. Call 498-2987 for information...
...scaled-down version of Chicago's McCormick Place. The first half-hour of the weekend service is devoted to such attractions as Christian rock music, drama and multimedia slide shows. Parishioners sit in posh theater seats rather than pews. When pastor Bill Hybels, 37, finally appears on the stage wearing a natty business suit and button-down collar, his message sounds more entrepreneurial than churchy. Preaching from a Plexiglas lectern, he talks about "taking risks" to be Christians and the "user value" of doctrinal studies...
Similarly, for more than a century the descendants of the freedmen have debated what name they should bear as a people. In every instance, a shift in appellation coincided with a new stage in the struggle for equality. In the years after the Civil War, the terms black and negro, favored by slaveholders gave way to the gentler designation colored. Early in this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass...
...collection of talent was impressive, if not quite a match for the hyperbolic title: Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event! Still, when Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. commanded the stage two weeks ago for a 90-minute TV concert, they were doing more than just a routine network special. The concert was the latest offering in a busy new realm of video mega-events: pay-per-view television...
...disapproval sets the stage for the bashing performed by others--a spiralling problem in our country...