Word: webs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...male cast, headed by Tenor Andrea Velis as the madwoman, masterfully performed Britten's difficult, often eerie sing-speech style of vocal writing. The score was as delicate and intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...
...major effects. For one thing, it tends to shatter and dissolve the usual web of associations and habit patterns. A telephone, for instance, is suddenly nothing but a black plastic object of a certain shape-how outrageous and funny to see someone pick it up and talk to it as though it were a person. The boundaries that normally separate things from each other, or from oneself, may be dissolved also. This may cause the impression that one's limbs and torso are liquefying and flowing away (horror!); or that one is in such close rapport with others...
...Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands of local branches whose vigilance reaches into every city block and every village hut. This pervasive network controls all facets of existence, pulls young and old into the web of ideological influence and ensures that no "foreign" political concept can take root...
...tortuous examination of single character heightened by a fantasy play-within-a-play. His latest offering, Touch, takes on a whole family with much of the same dramatist's skill, more humor, but unfortunately less discipline. Despite Eyes' inordinate length, the various parts were pulled together in a complex web; in Touch there are scenes which are merely extraneous and sometimes distracting from the main action of the play. This state of affairs is doubly frustrating since parts of Touch are not merely good, but excellent...
...NATO's $550 million communications network, an electronic web of everything from microwave to tropospheric scatter and leased land lines...