Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began examining alternatives short of wage-price controls, which Carter himself last week again ruled out. The White House has also forbidden "guidelines"-but only the word, which is anathema to businessmen and union leaders. The concept, renamed "standards" or "trigger points," is one of the hottest prospects for Stage...
...symptoms of inflation and not its root causes, notably bulging deficits and a too-rapid expansion of the U.S. money supply. But the Federal Reserve lately has been making progress in reducing money growth toward Miller's goal of an annual rate no higher than 6.5%, and Stage Two will include a new round of budget cutting. The Senate Budget Committee last week voted to set a $42.3 billion ceiling on the federal deficit for fiscal 1979, which starts Oct. 1. That would be well down from the $51.1 billion deficit in the fiscal year now ending...
...simple audacity of the enterprise is breathtaking. English Actor Alec McCowen, casually dressed in a sports coat and open-necked shirt, strolls onto a stage furnished only with a table and three chairs and recites, from memory, the entire Gospel according to St. Mark, then strolls off again. It is the sort of feat that inevitably is called a tour de force; yet a tour de force is precisely what it is not. The performance, quietly magnificent as it is, nevertheless is purged of all bravura. It is compelling theater that is at the same time nontheatrical...
Through that living voice, living people begin to inhabit the stage: the scribes and Pharisees, hardened by suspicion and orthodoxy; the Disciples, stalwart but muddled; Jesus himself, patient and determined but often exasperated ("Perceive ye not yet, neither understand...
...inland from Venice. His father was a stonemason, his uncle an architect and civil engineer who worked on the huge sea walls that protect Venice's lagoon. It was an image of massiveness that was to inspire Piranesi. From the busy Venetian theaters, he learned the art of stage design, which in those times ran to imposing fixed backdrops where ornate buildings receded in dramatic chiaroscuro. At 20, Piranesi landed a job in Rome as a junior draftsman in the retinue of a Venetian ambassador. He yearned to do his own buildings, but as he wrote despondently, "No buildings...