Word: terrains
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...Familiar Terrain. "It's an old-hat drama," Playwright Otto Jefferson Gibson says diffidently. In an eerily contemporary sense, he is right. In Later, Jason the generation gap between father and son is aggravated by the son's serious involvement with drugs. The son cannot pay the pusher who supplies him. Finally the son murders the pusher and is sentenced to life in prison. Jason's terrain is familiar; what is special about the play is that it is hardly an academic exercise. In this case, art imitates life with unsettling directness. At times the actors move...
...existence should be loath to take even the most minimal risks with their security. During his Jordan-sponsored tour of the Golan Heights, Rogers turned to his lieutenant, Joe Sisco, and remarked that it was easy to see how the Israelis could be so concerned about security in such terrain. But Rogers also took pains to note that he could understand, too, how the Arabs felt when looking at land that once was theirs...
...believed to be in residence in ten special camps. Training lasts from six to 18 months. Foreigners as well as Koreans are taught taekwondo, the local version of judo and karate, and are put through such rigorous training as running five hours at night, sometimes through rough mountain terrain, shouldering 100-lb. sandbags. "Running, running, running," in fact, is the training slogan...
RIGHT after the congressional elections last November, Richard Nixon surveyed the political terrain and told his intimates that Senator Edward Kennedy would most likely be the Democratic candidate for President in 1972. But what of Maine's Edmund Muskie? "The George Romney of the Democratic Party," Nixon scoffed. In 1967, Romney blew an early lead among the Republican contenders by appearing dimwitted when he confessed to having been "brainwashed" about Viet Nam. Now Republicans publicly and Democratic rivals privately are in full cry after Muskie for what might seem to be a similarly fatal failing: indecisiveness...
...Paul Sills (of Chicago Second City fame) at the Yale Drama School, story theatre techniques combine mime and improvisation. Its actors speak not only their own dialogue but also the general narrative line. Props and sets are kept at a minimum, permitting the actors themselves to suggest the imaginative terrain of their work...