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...work at universities, and many faculty members here provide both the ART and undergraduate theater with invaluable encouragement. But there is a hidden danger for a professional company working within a university, whether its professors are friendly or hostile. The academic community believes in treating art as a static object, a repository for beauty and truth that can be interpreted and reinterpreted, but only from without--only if you don't touch. An essay on As You Like It that outlined Shakespeare's underlying mockery of the pastoral mode of poetry, in other words, is quite acceptable, but a staging...
...When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth. In an attempt at aversion therapy, Government-funded scientists have even scattered chunks of lamb meat dosed with an emetic. Any coyote who samples the stuff quickly becomes ill. The object: to make coyotes feel that sheep are sickening. All these things have proved too inefficient or too costly to be much help. Is there, then, any safe, cheap and humane way of containing coyotes? Perhaps, say biologists. U.S. sheepmen have traditionally allowed sheep to roam their ranges, fenced...
...object of this vengeance: mainstream entertainers, or the comic's audience? With Andy Kaufman it can be hard to tell. Six years ago, he showed up on the first Saturday Night Live, smiled innocently at the audience and, phonograph to one side, mimed a single line from the chorus of a Mighty Mouse song. Is it funny...
...those vengeful citizens itching to see serious criminals get their just deserts will soon be able to impose Capital Punishment. Not via the chair, the chamber or the firing squad - but in the board game. In Capital Punishment, say Co-Inventors Bob Johnson and Ronald Pramschufer of Baltimore, the object is to put a murderer, a kidnaper, an arsonist or a rapist into the electric chair be fore an opponent's "liberals" can set him free by landing on the same square as the criminal. Not surprisingly, the game has outraged more than a few opponents of capital punishment...
...issued an order for Bourgeois's arrest for "subversion" and that the U.S. embassy was able to hustle him out of the country only after getting the reluctant support of José Napoleón Duarte, head of the ruling junta. Arriving in New York, Bourgeois said the object of his trip had been "to walk among the poor and to join their struggle for justice and peace." If the military and the right-wing death squads need any excuse for further harassing church workers in El Salvador, Bourgeois may have given them a ready-made rationale...