Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. A nine-year veteran of TIME who specializes in business and economics stories, DeMott was particularly pleased with the assignment because it permitted him to deal with a lifelong passion. "I've been fascinated by communications ever since I was a kid with two tin cans and a taut string between them," he says. "When I was ten, I got my own $10.95 telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses." DeMott soon graduated to more complicated gadgets, setting up telegraph keys with a teen-age friend...
That is why Dorothy's response is so unconsciously acute. She instinctively understands that what is developing around her is a tragedy of manners; Snider has read the bottom line shrewdly, but he has a blind eye and a tin ear for the social pieties, even the dress code, by which naked need and manipulative greed must be clothed for the sake of the respectability he desperately desires...
...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...
...Tin Roof will never be an enjoyable play to watch because it assaults too many brutal problems haunting people. But if the audience realizes this and allows itself to be swept into the setting, the characters, and their relationships, then the play will have a devastating effect, forcing us to confront our own problems, and our difficulties in expressing our thoughts. This particular production, superbly interpreted by the cast, plays off of the audience's attention, and as we get consumed in their actions, they in turn become more and more tense and brutal, relaxing their grip only when...