Word: vital
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Playhouse offers two totally different, but equally intriguing productions. Featured on a double bill are Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations, both one-acters by David Mamet. Best known for A Life in the Theater, Mamet has been called America's most vital young playwright, whatever that means. Meanwhile, the works of one of America's best-loved composer is represented in Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter, an interesting revue. For info on both shows, call the Playhouse at 426-6912; be sure to ask about student...
...their efforts to promote the bill, Administration backers have called it "the centerpiece of our national energy policy." Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger '50 has pushed the bill as a vital means of curbing America's voracious energy appetite. And President Carter, who promised our Western allies at Bonn this summer that the U.S. would curtail its oil consumption by 2 million barrels a day before 1985, obviously considers gas deregulation a primary means of keeping his promise...
...degree, that is changing. Because industrial peace is so vital to the white supremacist government of Prime Minister John Vorster, labor inspectors seldom object to the bending of apartheid rules even in South African-owned plants. Since the presence of the multinationals is much valued by the regime, they enjoy even more latitude in defying apartheid...
...those diabetics who either cannot make enough of the vital hormone or cannot use it effectively, the feat is potentially a double boon. In years ahead, it should ensure them of an abundant supply of insulin, which is needed by the body to metabolize sugar and other carbohydrates. It will also reduce their dependence on insulin extracted from cattle and swine, which causes allergic reactions in some 5% of the diabetics who need...
...nothing very vital is added to anyone's understanding of that classic figure, and Mercouri's performance in long scenes from Medea doesn't help much either. There is much eye rolling, teeth baring and anguished screeching, but no break in the clouds of self-absorption that always hover around her. Finally, the modern Medea's story gets told, the play opens, and the picture ends, leaving the audience no wiser...