Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway, Tom Courtenay continued in Otherwise Engaged by flashlight, with an actor shouting "Erring!" when a phone was supposed to ring and humming the overture to Wagner's Parsifal in place of a recording. About a quarter of the 2,000 people who were watching the stage show Salute to New York City stayed on at Radio City Music Hall after the lights went out, snacking on pretzels and Italian ices bought from street vendors who crowded into the foyer. At Shea Stadium, play stopped in the sixth inning, with the Chicago Cubs leading the New York Mets...
...increased minimum wage. Still, employers generally remain hostile to both measures. A coalition of business lobbyists, backed by a war chest of more than $1 million," is planning what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes as "a long and bitter battle" against the labor-reform proposals. Thus the stage is set for what could be one of the harshest congressional clashes of the current session-and a test of Carter's newly professed allegiance to organized labor...
During the months and even years when the disease is in a mild stage, the patient may need only aspirin-or no treatment at all. But when lupus flares up, doctors resort to more powerful weapons. Corticosteroids are commonly used to control inflammations. Skin rashes can be reduced by antimalarial drugs, and even the immune system's rampaging white cells can be brought under control by some of the same potent drugs used against cancer cells...
...Esplanade, one of Taylor's most popular works, there is no traditional dancing at all, but rather a dizzying series of walks and runs set to the music of Bach. At one point Nicholas Gunn, the company's best-known male dancer, must run across the stage to catch Carolyn Adams. Says Gunn: "I have to keep moving at that terrific tempo, and she has to jump in the air and hope that a man who is not there yet will get there at the last second to catch her. It's frightening...
While he and Lucy carry on like stage eccentrics, Scott dexterously endows them with past lives and disappoint ments, a third dimension that turns the question of their fate into a matter of importance as well as curiosity...