Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Three actors and three actresses portray a total of some thirty-odd characters. After each episode the authors shake their kaleidoscope and the players fall into a new combination of roles. This use of multiple roles and a bare stage set only with a few chairs permits a fast-paced production that rarely drags and almost always maintains interest...
Four shows were bought last fall by stations in Scandinavia and Germany; the program has also been sold in Australia and Canada. Now sold at last in the U.S.-but only in five cities-the series is mainly dramatic, ranging from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea to adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Shirley Jackson's coldly disturbing The Lottery. A play called The Gunfighter sends the average western up in gun smoke as it concentrates with the tension of High Noon on the 30 minutes that precede...
...charged that the "astronomical" cost of meeting the union's demands would be at least $500 million over the next two years, warned its employees not to look for a "pot of gold" in the fall. Replied Jim Carey: "A fair and efficient management could provide every benefit sought by the union for less than one-half the cost as estimated by General Electric...
...heart of the sensor is a tiny ceramic disk that vibrates 80,000 times per second, except when damped by a liquid. As the liquids from the two tanks fall below the level of the sensors, they begin to vibrate, sending a signal to a computer". Acoustica's contract should be worth $6,000,000 to $10 million during the current year and may reach $20 million over the next three years...
This jolly-sounding novel, which draws its title from Robert Browning's account of the last days of the Venetian Republic, might more properly be called FitzGibbon's Decline and Fall of the British Empire. With horrid persuasiveness, it looks forward to the moment, somewhere between 1960 and 1984, when Britain decides "to commit suicide" and becomes a Soviet satellite. Lest any reader think he is not reading about the possible, FitzGibbon provides a text from Lenin, who held that in war, it is best to wait "until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the mortal blow...