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...most controversial element in the $25 million U.S. military aid package for El Salvador is the accompanying contingent of 54 American military "trainers." They are naval technicians and helicopter pilots, assigned to teaching their Salvadoran counterparts how to use and maintain the sophisticated equipment the U.S. is providing. Just as important, they are teaching them the skills and tactics needed to fight a counterinsurgency war, combat for which the Salvadoran armed forces had never prepared...
Almost every technical element of The Hostage is relentlessly straightforward, from Jon Monderer's unobtrusive lighting design to Bundy's simple blocking. Chris Clemenson's set, while extremely well-crafted, poses a major problem for the show. High stacks of appropriately beat-up furniture and clutter surround a vast, empty space, thus forcing almost all action center-stage. When actors deliver their lines from near the bed that stands upstage they are sometimes inaudible and seem miles away, "swallowed up" by that infamous monster, the Loeb Mainstage...
Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate, said on nonrent-controlled housing such as the Botantic Gardens apartments rents are determined by "fair market value" and reflect the spaciousness of an apartment and its location, among other considerations. She added, however, there is a "subjective element" in deciding the extent of increases...
...willing suspension of disbelief that lies at the heart of the theater can become practically cryogenic under the spell of all that glitter. Complete strangers start singing in harmony, villains start tapdancing--no one will bat an eye if it's snappy enough. A.W.O.L. has all of the elements required for a good musical--maybe too many--but one begins to suspect that even though the cast and orchestra know what they are doing, the director got lost somewhere. The only element of musical comedy that cannot be toyed with is the pacing--and that is just where A.W.O.L...
...near-unconsciousness and drops names instinctively without realizing it. (Ringo keeps telling me he's trying to stop but I just don't believe him) Nor do the references make any sense whatsoever: they become for the dropper as (God, I hope things work out for Theda) vital an element of speech as inhaling and exhaling--occurring inexorably and reflexively. (Why won't Woody just realize he's peaked?) This is a horrifying state (I wonder if Marion will ever work again) of affairs because the dropper's speech and thought patterns are rendered virtually (I do so miss Scott...