Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which includes $22 billion for improving Japan's long neglected highways, bridges and pollution controls. Another $10.5 billion is being spent for 550,000 sorely needed new housing units. As a consequence, consumer spending is reviving, the once mountainous backlog of inventories is fast being depleted, and the stage is set for a reasonably strong recovery...
...straw hat, crimson satin bloomers-and sneakers. Midge Costanza knows how to dress for success. In fact, President Carter's aide stole the show last week at a fund raiser for the Women's National Democratic Club. The "political fashion show" at Washington's Arena Stage featured Caron Carter dressed as her mother-in-law and Louisiana Representative Lindy Boggs as Lady Bird Johnson. Costanza's role: Amelia Bloomer, the 19th century suffragist who, by defending women's pantaloons, gave bloomers their name. Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White House basement...
Since the Fall it has been one rude truth after another. Copernicus elbowed us from celestial stage-center with his observation that the earth revolves around the sun. Darwin opened the closet of evolution to introduce family skeletons that further questioned our singular divinity. Under the damp side of civilized behavior, Freud found the perpetually rutting...
L.B.M.: Then let's do a space scene. Maybe lower some flying saucers from the ceiling, stage a big star war and drown the bad guys under a couple of waterfalls. With the right kind of equipment, we could pump 6,000 gallons and water down every drink in the first four rows...
Austrian Peter Handke, 35, first achieved fame in Europe as a flamboyantly avant-garde dramatist. His best-known play, Offending the Audience, did just that: insulted by the actors' dialogue and by the evident purposelessness of their actions, spectators stormed the stage when the drama was produced in Frankfurt. Handke's reputation in America is altogether more modest and is chiefly based on four novels that are less strident than his plays but every bit as puzzling and unsettling. The Left-Handed Woman, a novella, will provoke more admiration and head scratching...