Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down exactly why the Leverett gang can't meet even these relatively simple challenges. The music alone hints at the exuberance that must permeate other productions. But disappointingly, dancers and actors prance through hackneyed plot twists with situation-comedy blocking, alternately mouthing highflown platitudes and one-liners till any tension, believeable motivation or even logical flow becomes lost in confusion...
...Mercedes while their owners indulge Gucci tastes in smart boutiques. Foreign banks and trading companies compete for expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing to an all too visible superclass of the very rich. But at the same...
...little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though it's a little expensive, is the Greenery, down on Chapel St. And you should make sure you go to Toad's place, a concert hall on York St, where they serve drinks till 2:30 a.m. And then there is..." But wait, you break in, not knowing the end is near, "Why do you know so much about the Fun Spots...
...inventing an effective device, to continue using it until it has beaten the audience insensible. In the first courtroom scene, Polonius, at a signal from the King, begins to thump his stick on the floor. At each impact the courtiers clap in unison; gradually, the chamberlain accelerates his pounding till the room rings with hearty applause. All well and good; but, having established the procedures. Cain has Polonius repeat the gesture six of seven times before the scene closes, and at least four more times by the end of the play...
...fingers. Lecouffe says later that he learned to play his fiddle as a child in Canada, then gave it up and started again about ten years ago. "Read music?" he says, grunting at the humor of this. "I don't even know what key I'm in till someone like Dave Carr tells...