Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout this long evening (each one-acter lasts more than an hour, and an extended break pushes the final curtain past 11:30) the twin productions maintain a sharp direction and pace that keeps them from flagging. Time speeds up and slows down often in the space between 8 p.m. and midnight; cynicism becomes hope and then a starry-eyed idealism inviting scorn, reality advances and recedes through a spyglass of jingoist jargon and lovers' quarrels. On the surface, the two shows--a self-styled "political allegory with music" and an original drama about a suicidal writer--could hardly have...
Conservative opponents of SALT sometimes spoke as if it were possible to regain our nuclear superiority, but they soon recoiled before the twin obstacles of technology and cost. Liberals, on the other hand, were reluctant to draw the consequences for local defense from the strategic parity they were both advocating and accelerating. Both schools tended to neglect the need for strengthening regional or conventional forces...
...ninth grade, my twin brother Tom and I managed to acquire what seemed to be the most sought-after job the city of Detroit had to offer. All of the boys at Covington Junior High were uncontrollably jealous of the Doctoroff twins--the new Detroit Piston Ballboys...
...outpost of youthful chicken slingers clad in the orange and black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...
...twin-engine executive jet that landed at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport last week looked distinctly out of place next to the Ilyushins and Antonovs parked on the tarmac. On its fuselage was lettered United States of America. A team of top U.S. officials had flown in to discuss with Communist officials an issue that still stirs deep emotions among Americans: the fate of 2,553 U.S. soldiers still unrecovered from the Indochina...