Word: waved
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...production by Boston's TheaterWorks group shatters that myth in one enormous carnival of dance, theater, performance/installation art and new wave music. Yet Out Out is not the definitive statement on life in the nuclear age, and only partially does it manage to capture, as design coordinator Craig Sonnenberg wanted it to, "the spirit of the 80s". Out Out is the result of a collaboration by a 10-member "design team" headed by Sonnenberg, and assisted by TheaterWorks artistic directors Vincent Murphy and Tim McDonough. Perhaps it is a myth in the theater circle that in the event...
...costumes are those of punks and new romantics gone off to the circus and while some seem inspired by the recent new wave film Starstruck, others are brand new and very clever. One cast member, dancer Glenda Medeiros, wears knee-length spandex pants. Spray-painted up one inner thigh and around and down the other is the message. "There is nothing." As she rolls across the floor, spreading her legs with each tumble, the audience sees the words over and over again...
Throughout the discussions, however, officials from both sides retained significant but friendly differences. The U.S. visitors underscored Washington's conviction that the Marxist-led guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador, which is now in its fourth year, is part of a subversive wave that is covertly backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba as well by Nicaragua. They explained that the U.S.'s increasingly controversial policies in the region, including economic and military support for El Salvador and sponsorship of a covert insurgency against Nicaragua, are a response to that provocation. Secretary of State Shultz, said a senior...
...Pepper could wave "a legislative wand," he says he would "enact a Medicare bill under which the entire cost would be borne by the Government instead of just the 45% now." He would provide home health care, claiming that it would often save the Government the higher cost of putting people who need not be there in hospitals. And he would provide more preventive health coverage, in hopes of checking illness and prolonging life. Overall, Pepper is optimistic, even without his wand, because he feels that pressure is growing on the Administration to stop cutting social programs. "The Reagan...
...finale, the characters pass around English flags and wave them as they sing the last song. That final touch rounds off a perfectly exquisite evening of G&S--one leaves humming the show's most memorable melodies, twanging with English accents, eagerly awaiting a seventh and yet an eighth opportunity to see the show...