Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHAMBERS of the Cambridge City Council are set in a square room with a circular center of podiums, tables and platforms. The main stage at the front of the room is where the mayor sits, with his assistants, the city clerks, on his right-hand side. Down below, the room is further divided by two rows of smaller podiums, occupied by the remaining members of the council. The casual observer cannot, however, expect to distinguish party affiliations by the physical divisions of the room. The conservative Independents do not sit on one side of the room, as if facing...
...submitted a military budget calling for a 3% increase in spending, discounted for inflation, to $117.8 billion. Liberals are vowing to get a larger share of the pie for social welfare programs this year, while conservatives are equally determined to maintain the nation's military preparedness. Thus the stage is set for some ferocious floor fights in the coming months...
From Washington and Jerusalem, there were also reports that as a result of Atherton's labors, Israel and Egypt were close to agreement on the declaration of principles-the vital, first-stage objective that Sadat hopes will encourage Jordan's King Hussein to join him in further negotiations with the Israelis. From Hussein's words of support for Sadat last week, and from the harsh criticism of Hussein by the Syrians, who oppose the Sadat initiative, it appeared that the Jordanian monarch might be on the verge of doing just that. With the peace initiative again gaining...
Volchek's stage effects are admirable, and one is memorable. At one point a barbed-wire barrier must be erected to keep desperate would-be riders off the train. The barrier is set up, and then, with a slow, ghastly insistence, the train ad vances on it until all the women in the boxcar seem to be impaled on the wire...
Sills recently announced her planned retirement from the stage in 1980, when she will become co-director of the New York City Opera...