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With Purcell's music lending a touch of formal majesty, the performers move from discord to concord in a progress that sinks deep into the layers of Shakespeare's meanings, to emerge restored and invigorated. Stage movement as much as language becomes a spade they use to unearth poetic ambiguities, in several mimes enacted to bits of Purcell's score: while a soprano sings a mournful aria, Stephen Rowe's Demetrius and Lisa Sloan's Helena wander about in a ghostly love-dance, with Helena reaching for and grasping Demetrius just as he turns away; after the night of illusion...
State environmentalists then gave the plant preliminary approval. Residents of Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood, the utility company Boston Edison and other opponents of the plant have until the end of the month to unearth new data if they are to convince the division to change its mind...
...Thompson Pass is only one of the obstacles that could still upset the timetable. Another is the need to unearth, test, mend and backfill the last 200 of 3,955 "suspect" welds-about 10% of the total-that earlier this year were discovered to have been inspected sloppily or not at all. Some are buried under ice-covered river crossings, and they will have to be dug up and, if necessary, rewelded before the salmon return next spring. That chore, wryly says one Alyeska technician, promises to be "another wildly interesting experiment in arctic engineering." It could...
Stick around. Maybe somebody will unearth a manuscript by Thucydides quoting a 5th Century B.C. speech given by Alcibiades: "I see an Athens at peace with her neighbors ... I see an Athens that has achieved detente with Sparta...
...coming up with heretofore unprinted information, he didn't count on Senate Select Committees beating him to the punch. As Ungar said in an interview here last month, it's frustrating to watch all these disclosures appear daily, especially revelations about COINTELPRO that he was the first to unearth. "I wanted to write something that would last beyond tomorrow's headlines," Ungar said. With this well-organized barrage, unloaded with an analysis that day-to-day journalists can't stop to churn out, he certainly...