Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of anticipating that my party's going to win, so the sun will come out at about 11:00 tonight," said Josie L. Karp `94 after voting at Quincy House...
...PLANET MERCURY IS TRULY A HELLISH PLACE: IT is one-third as far from the sun as Earth, and its daytime temperatures can reach 430 degreesC (800 degreesF). The last thing scientists expected to find there was ice. But that is just what a new radar study of Mercury, reported in Science, has detected. Planetary scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and at Caltech aimed powerful radar beams at both of the planet's poles; the return signals bore the telltale signs of having bounced off a frozen surface. Like Earth and Mars, Mercury appears to have polar...
...English patient," tarred black by burns and lost now in his memories of map-making explorations in the deserts of North Africa. One is a morphine thief named Caravaggio. The third is an Indian Sikh, called Kip, working for the English as a bomb defuser. And the sun around which all these "planetary strangers" turn is a 20-year-old female nurse from Canada...
This problem is most pronounced with the scenery. The action takes place in a bleak urban landscape that is vaguely post-apocalyptic--a huge chain link fence lines the back of the stage, rusted trash litters the floor, and a blazing sun hangs low in the background. Although impressive, the scenery has little relevance to the plot or action, and simply gets in the way of the drama. In several telling moments, the actors trip on some of the more clunky pieces of trash...
These elements detract from some of the better performances. Jennifer Sun is excellent as Medea. Her portrayal of the sorceress as a strong, driven and bizarrely triumphant woman is convincing. She succeeds at the difficult feat of making an unrepentant infanticidal mother a compelling and even sympathetic character. J.C. Wolfgang Murad, as Medea's wayward husband Jason, is a little hesitant in the early sections, but reaches a convincingly enraged pitch by the final scenes...