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Word: stagings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest was also the last Hemenway stage appearance for seniors Scott Mead, Ken Ehrlich and captain Bill Kaplan. All three took their curtain calls admirably, winning their matches with minimal difficulty...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Fates Had It: Harvard 9, Yale 0 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...attend. Then, a few lesser "suspects" were paraded forth to read out "confessions" implicating the three men. The archbishop smiled wanly and shook his head in disbelief when he heard his own name mentioned as one of the agents whom the exiled Milton Obote had chosen to help stage a coup. Amid soldiers' cries of "Kill them all!" a gracious Amin declared that, in all fairness, there would be "a proper military trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Death of an Archbishop | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Blair proposes a tough remedy. At present, the big companies control each stage of the petroleum process: pumping, transport, refining, marketing. Blair would break them up into companies specializing in only one phase of the petroleum process. Ideally, each company would then haggle over price each time the oil changed hands and would thus unleash free-market forces that would push prices down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Spanking the Sisters | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

David Mamet, unlike the grunting, inarticulate characters he puts on the stage in American Buffalo, is as wordy as Webster's. In the course of conversation, the 29-year-old playwright can ornament his speeches with quotes from Tolstoy, Archibald MacLeish, Karl Marx, Voltaire, Jesus or Stanislavsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: David Mamet's Bond of Futility | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Chekhov's plays extraordinary things usually happen in the most ordinary ways. Not so in the revival of The Cherry Orchard at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center. Director Andrei Serban emblazons even quite ordinary moments with extraordinary stage effects. Symbolic figures stalk in and out, backgrounds loom hugely, movement flows into patterns and tableaux. The results are bold, sometimes beautiful, but only partly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Magnified Gestures | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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