Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's action on the device of having two actresses play Mary--one at 19, one at 40. The character views her memories, fears and deferred dreams from both perspectives. The success of the play rests almost entirely on this innovative structure, since all of the other characters function essentially as two dimensional background. And the central actresses do not always seem able to shoulder such a burden...
Nick Wyse as Romeo supports her admirably, as does Benjamin Evett as a surprisingly young and hip friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends...
Colantuano said that to his knowledge no action was ever taken on that complaint. "I believe the commission failed to fulfil its function," he added...
...Logan Evans '84, a Dudley House representative who gained council notoriety during an unsuccessful quest for the council chairmanship with grandiose pledges including "King Trivia," said this week that "humiliation will be the name of the game" at the function, which he plans to hold every Friday night despite no formal support from the council's social committee, which he co-chairs...
Before these new discoveries can be applied, more must be learned about the precise function of oncogenes in the cell. Every gene in nature carries a code, or recipe, for creating a specific protein. If a single gene is responsible for producing cancer, it must be a result of the protein that the gene creates. Researchers are just beginning to figure out what kinds of proteins oncogenes make. Once they do, scientists may be able to develop tests to detect tiny traces of these proteins; such tests could allow the diagnosis of cancer at a far earlier stage than...