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...Tennessee Williams reek of viciousness, violence, and sexual tension. Some of his most famous characters--Amanda in The Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire--struggle with self-control and eventually find themselves unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however, face an unmistakingly real existence controlled by alcoholism, latent homosexuality, and insatiable desire and greed. A successful production of any Williams play requires an intimate understanding of the underlying themes and a willingness to confront them straight on without embellishing the lines with sappy overacting. In a Williams play...
...actors in the current Dunster House production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof let the words of their characters speak for themselves, and by doing so they arouse our fascination in their relationships. Under the brilliant direction of Kevin Jennings, the actors submerge themselves in the plot and use the sharply vivid language to reveal their characters' mental anguish and desperate attempts at making some sense of their lives. Mounted in the small, dimly lit Dunster Junior Common Room, the play is set on the same level as the audience. The proximity of the actors to the audience...
...Corsair light attack jets screamed down, bombed and fired on positions surrounding where we stood. Then a lumbering gray-painted C-130 with its rapid-fire gun in the rear made its entry, spraying the hillsides above with percussion fire as loud as hailstones hitting a tin roof. We could feel the hot rush of air and the concussion from the exploding bombs, and yet, directly in front of us, four fishing boats still bobbed idly at their anchors, and a young Grenadian in a red bathing suit walked nonchalantly by as if he were still headed for his afternoon...
...Internal Revenue Service building, whose severe façades are as humorless as the activity behind them, the Pavilion has an atmosphere that invites and cheers tourists. The spacious court echoes with conversation, the tinkle of silverware and the beat of live music. Pushcarts purvey historic photos and imported tin boxes painted with the images of Washington buildings. Weary sightseers can relax at dozens of tables. On a large stage in the atrium, the Evans Co. presents free entertainment-ballet, jazz and puppet shows-seven days and six evenings a week. Twenty-five shops display items such as lingerie, confections...
...such emergencies, the capsule, its crew snugly strapped inside, blasts away from the pad within milliseconds after the blowup. The rocket tip arcs up to an altitude of several thousand feet, where the capsule then rolls out of its casing (much like a tennis ball out of a tin can) and parachutes safely back to earth...