Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...displays such annoying faults as complacently explicating the dialogue she has just penned. Nora's attitude towards her father, for example, is summarized: "She loved him and regarded him as wise-after-all. Sometimes she was ashamed of him, but mostly she loved him. He was her father." Descriptions tend to lack sensitivity of image. After a morning run in which she is pursued by two men. Nora's emotional state is discussed with passionate imprecision...
WHILE MOST OF THE performances are competent, few rise above the level of mediocrity imposed by lackluster dialogue and listless direction; the actors tend to react individually, rather than together as a dynamic company...
...study, and the actors move well on the dining hall stage. Lowell House's choice of Deathtrap was a good one. The local production surpasses the Hollywood version which had trouble trying to enlarge the scope of the action. The only slight drawback is that because dead people tend to lie on the floor, people sitting in the back sometimes have trouble seeing what they are doing...
...process, they became sitting ducks for people who had all kinds of reasons to want to disrupt and provoke. They became targets rather than symbols of future stability." Another lesson, judging by the experience of the Syrians and the Israelis, is that attempts by outsiders to dominate Lebanon tend to end in failure, if not disaster...
Most activists in the peace movement tend to see their struggle as a campaign more against the U.S. than against NATO, and only remotely against the nuclear policies of the Soviet Union. In the words of one organizer, "That is because we can't influence the Soviet Union, but we can influence decisions here." In the long run, the movement probably will have an impact. A decade ago, nuclear strategy could be carried out by a small priest hood of strategic theologians who made their decisions in blissful solitude. No longer. As last weekend's demonstrations showed...