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...addition to Gee, sharpshooting guard Greg Buth helps anchor a Dartmouth offense that lit up Keene State for 112 points on Nov. 23. Buth, who is averaging 17.5 points in his last four games, was the top three-point shooter in the nation one year ago. He remains capable of displaying the hot hand that can power the Big Green scoring machine...
...current plan, which the Masters said they will try on a trial basis, will allow students easy entrance to all the Houses for meetings or simply to visit friends, as well as the chance to duck into a dry and well-lit hallway if weather or--more importantly--a strange character on the street makes a quick escape necessary. During the universal keycard hours, holding the door open will be a thing of the past...
...black screen masks a platform upstage and creates an amorphous and cloaked space essential to Machinal's murky insinuations. The lighting, especially because it seems to be lit from the back, creates a silhouette of figures. This space becomes the sordid space of sexual conquest, first with the boss, later as a murky bar and finally in the second act as holding pen for Helen before her execution...
...dialogue is a voice-over creates the impression that the actors are merely odd configurations of marionettes. In this scene, people have fully transformed into machines. Helen's appeals for mercy seem to be almost rays of light bouncing off the darkened stage, for she is the only lit figure. Suddenly, strobe lights destroy the darkness, and the execution is complete...
...disturbs. One wishes for a more concrete understanding of the stilted dialogue and the odd movements of the actors and actresses, yet the sense of not fully understanding the dynamics of the plot piques the audience's interest. Machinal reinforces the audience's worst suspicions through its oddly lit, sparsely staged and undeveloped emotional tension, for the play suggests that emotions do not matter, and existence is merely a sterilized and mechanical occurrence...