Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest house, named simply the Stage, has a thrust stage, with the audience on three sides. Not one of its 643 seats is more than 50 ft. from center stage. Six hydraulic lifts can carry actors and scenery up and down; plays will be done in repertory, so there is ample room in wings and flies for sets from at least two productions. Behind the Stage's thrust is the second theater, a pentagonal house, 100 ft. in diameter, which is aptly dubbed the Space. All seats are movable, and the director can use the room...
...wake of the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan, against a backdrop of the Kremlin's continuing nuclear and conventional military buildup, the U.S. must redefine its role in the world and especially its relationship with the U.S.S.R. Columbia's Soviet affairs specialist Seweryn Bialer fears "the worst possible situation is when the U.S.S.R. feels that it has nothing to fear from the U.S. and nothing to hope for from the U.S." In the current situation, Bialer urges that "the Soviets should have more to fear from us than they...
...been the altered role of the armed forces. Like so many of the Shah's monuments-the industrial complexes that now stand idle, the telecommunications system that no longer works flawlessly-the army has found its role curtailed. In November, when the central government fought off a thrust for autonomy by Kurdish rebels, it did so by sending to Kurdistan a specially formed division made up of army and air force units. Why not a regular army division? Either because the army did not have a unit that was deemed capable of doing the job, or because the government...