Word: towering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House production seen in preview Wednesday night is a success, although credit must go to the score more than to anything else. The versatile set by William Buckingham manages to evoke a feeling of Victorian dinginess and boasts a high tower for the ghosts to appear on. The lighting, by director Daniel Freudenberger, gives us some chilling moments when the ghosts do appear. These scenes are also blocked effectively, but at other times blocking is clumsy and even ludicrous--as when the children play a halting game of hobby horse. Much of the dramatic tension of the script...
...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...years ago, but complex production bugs stymied its use until recently. The ordinary method of casting is to pour the metal into ingot molds to harden, strip away the mold, reheat the ingot and roll it into semifinished shapes. Continuous casting eliminates these cumbersome steps. A ladle atop a tower pours white-hot steel into a 2-to-4-ft-deep oscillatfhg copper-lined mold. As the mold bottom is withdrawn, an unbroken billet of barely crusted steel creeps down through cooling water sprays and over rollers to burners, which slice it, still red-hot, into handy lengths. The technique...
...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...people the play, have been merely the fantasies of Waltz's buzzing brain. This whole monstrous world, suggests Nabokov, is just a madman's dream. Does Waltz speak for Nabokov? Nabokov says nyet. Yet by refusing to establish any objective grounding, Nabokov reduces his cloud-capped tower of fantasy to a dusty heap of speculation. The reader is left to realize that where there is no possible answer, there can have been no genuine question...