Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of what might otherwise have been an episodic comedy the true, tragic story of his sister, a diabetic who doomed herself to early death in order to bear a child, and his mother's struggle to come to terms with that choice. It gives the piece the dramatic focus and the emotional weight it requires...
There is a very dangerous trend in this country, and in the world in general, to focus attention on problems of current popular interest, leaving other equally pressing but less publicized matters unaddressed. Saving our forests is certainly a very popular issue these days. Thousands have responded to increased media attention and the pleas of pop stars like the Grateful Dead and David Byrne by hopping onto the arboreal bandwagon. The fate of the world's forests and woodlands is indeed an important issue, but what about the other less trendy "wet spots" on our hypothetical...
...Loeb Mainstage's play within a play, Noises Off. Written by Michael Frayn, Noises Off is really about a second-rate theater company's attempt to stage second-rate playwright Robin House-monger's Nothing On. This HRDC production employs skillful direction and great comic talent to focus on the onstage and backstage sexual politics of a group of British has-been actors...
Thoreau is, of course, the play's focus, and all the other characters seem to exist merely as his foils. Emerson (Elijah Siegler) is portrayed as a well-meaning, pontificating old man who is, at the end, rather pathetic because he does nothing to act on the ideals that he inspires in Thoreau. Other characters such as Thoreau's brother (David Javerbaum) who shares and makes corporeal Thoreau's ideals, and the man from the school committee (Ted Caplow) who attacks Thoreau for not sticking to the established texts, are also well portrayed...
Amherst State Rep. Stan Rosenberg said he supports the strike "as long as it produces positive political action. Student activity throughout the last month has helped focus attention on higher education...