Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each of the actresses presents her character in an individual style impeccably suited to that character's function. Daphne de Marneffe gives Polly Peachum just enough soiled innocence. With a simple shrug, de Marneffe gives over Polly Peachum for the spectator to study, to chew up and to spit right back. Martha Hackett gives the strongest female presence of the production Artfully establishing the distance between herself, the character, and the audience, Hackett states clearly that most human conflict between fantasy and reality, between love and money. Her husky voice capturing the harsh sweetness of Weill's music evokes...
...lucky (and smart) because in Bauhaus he has found a subject that badly needs debunking. Just because Wolfe didn't like modern painting doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it; paintings have no function but to provoke and entertain, and that is the province of personal taste. But architecture is different. It affects us everyday, and when it fails us, our lives are the poorer for it. And, sayeth the prophet Wolfe with characteristic grace and enthusiasm, architecture has failed us on a grand scale...
...newspaper quoted Casey as saying, "The CIA has no interest in spying within the United States; that is solely a function of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Sexton added that the most controversial topic taken up at the conference was the relationship between gas cooking and respiratory health. Some studies have linked the presence of gas stoves in homes and reduced lung function in children. Nitrogen dioxide, one of the by-products of gas combustion, has long been thought the causative agent...
...John D. Spengler, in a paper presented at the symposium, found no correlation between measured nitrogen dioxide levels and lung function. "This is not conclusive, as it was based on a small sample size," Sexton said, adding also that it did not preclude the possibility that short-term, "peak exposures" to the gas might be harmful...