Word: sunkenness
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...poster were anything to go by, Baal was to be an earnest, wrenching and dark drama of sunken sockets and deep grimaces. Weary of exactly such grand concepts and heavy emotions, the young Brecht wrote this play as a mild satire of late-nineteenth-century symbolist drama. This is not to say that the play is not be treated seriously but certainly not with the solemnity that the cast of Baal at the Loeb Ex did. In fact, many, especially amateurs, stay away from lyrical, intense tragedies on stage these days precisely because of the danger of ending...
Stephanie Gibbs (the Pupil) and Padraic O'Reilly (the Professor) worked together marvelously. Their timing was excellent and their flair for the absurd commendable. Through great costuming. O'Reilly had the exhausted, overworked look of a truly brilliant thinker--sunken-in eyes and a not-quite-close shave, combined with greasy hair and a slightly disheveled tuxedo...
...Gulf Breeze, Florida, Mel Burklow, 53, stares at what remains of his once thriving marina. Where there used to be 41 berths for large boats, there is now just twisted wreckage and sunken ships. In one corner, 15 big boats worth millions of dollars are stacked like toys, each a total loss. "As a small business, we're wiped out," says Burklow, who estimates his loss at $742,000. He points to huge chunks of reinforced concrete that have been ripped from a protective barrier. "That gives you an idea of what kind of force we're talking about...
...carpeted with so-called manganese nodules, potato-size chunks of manganese mixed with iron, nickel, cobalt and other useful metals. In the 1970s, Howard Hughes used the search for nodules as a cover for building the ship Glomar Explorer, which was used to salvage a sunken Soviet sub. Now several mining companies are drawing up plans to do with more up-to-date equipment what Hughes only pretended...
...their programs. A fifth of France's present oceanography budget comes from renting out the country's expertise. The Nautile, for example, was hired to retrieve artifacts from the Titanic in 1987, and last year the Roederer Champagne company paid ifremer for an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to find the sunken airplane of French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery...