Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AUDIENCES at English comedies written before 1800 usually spend the first act on the edge of their seats, so busy trying to follow the dialogue that relaxation is out of the question. In the hands of a good director, they will gradually catch the rhythm of stylized language, the trick of keeping the intricate plot in order without constantly consulting the program: only then can they be properly drawn into the dramatic illusion. But at the American Repertory Theater's production of The School for Scandal, written in 1777 by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the audience is at ease long before...
...Labor Party. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of the Italian Center for Strategic Studies in Rome: "A large part of public opinion in Europe feels that the French nuclear force exists, and the effect of saying it should not be counted causes confusion. People think the Americans are playing a trick...
...paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will regret what they did." By week's end, however, Koch conceded that Stern was not sure that its signed agreements were enforceable. Parker acknowledged that portions of the disputed story came from interviews with Newsweek...
BILL RAUCH meets and overcomes this challenge by employing an experimental trick of staging. Seating the audience on the small Agassiz stage, Rauch stages the play in the theatre itself...
MAKE NO MISTAKE--Falwell is a charlatan, and a dangerous one. His illiberal views on gay rights, school prayer, and national defense would, if enacted into law, imperil civil rights and world peace. But the preacher's enormous popularity is no mere media trick. He speaks to deep-seated feelings of confusion and discontent among the American people. Like 1930s rightist radio clergyman Father Charles Coughlin, Falwell provides Americans beset by hard times an answer to their problems: Return to tradition and authority. And he does so in terms that resonate deep within our collective imagination--God and Country...