Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conventional war games date back to the late 18th century, when they were laboriously played with wooden blocks on colorfully painted boards. Today's high-speed computers, with their prodigious memory banks and supersmart silicon processing chips, can paint realistic playing fields and speed the action up to nearly "real time." While aspects of the Janus program remain classified, it could be described as a computer-age variation of the children's sea game, Battleship. Janus, which is played on land pits the U.S. against forces modeled after the Soviets'. Two teams of players divide into separate...
David Chapman has provided it of last summer's stage a two stets set with rugged wooden posts a pair of up stage stairs and down stage floor-traps and a few basis pieces of furniture that can be raised or lowered instantaneously. This allows for maximum fluidity and Coe has taken good advantage of it. Chapman's costumes sometimes smack of the bargain basement, but the AST is counting pennies these days in order to survive Mare B. Weiss back here for the 18th time, has helped the production enormously with his mood-enhancing lighting...
...still dark when the priory bell announces the day. In the small, spare chapel built of fieldstone and used wooden beams, 14 brothers gather for their vigil prayer. They arrive singly, dressed in work clothes and blue Oriental-style overblouses. In the choir space, illuminated by a single candle, they wait in quiet meditation until all are present. With them on this weekend morning are some 40 visitors...
...general, the adult actors perform adequately at best. Dee Wallace, as the mother, appears too confused herself to carry off the confused parent role. The NASA hit squad pops up awkwardly without regard to the rest to the plot. What little acting the white-suited villians do is wooden and stereotypical. But the kids. They are adorable, and appropriately, they make the show...
Browsing around one can pick up the heaviest baseball ever, a shotput covered with a leather hide. Hanging on a book opposite the front door is a set of 1940s catcher's gear below it is a wooden club emblazoned "Louisville Bat Co." manufactured years before the company changed its named to "Louisville Slugger." Sheet music of various baseball songs including four of the five original copies of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," cover the walls...