Word: outer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Michael Wieshan must be credit with at least recognizing this possibility. From the stylized program and elegant costumes to the old-time music and quaint Lower Common Room set, the play has all the outer makings of a memorable production. Yet these external touches are not enough to evoke the sense of nostalgia and camaraderie so vital to the show's thematic and character development. Instead, what we get is a series of seemingly endless scenes between half-developed characters who appear uncomfortable on stage and uncertain of just who it is they're supposed to be portraying...
Have you ever sat in the outer office amid the grossly outdated copies of People, Architectural Digest and the Harvard Alumni Magazine? Have you ever nervously fidgeted there listening to the whirling drill just a pressboard wall away? Have you ever taken long, deep breaths to fight off panic while anticipating future pain in the dentist's chair? I have. We all have. It is that terrifying fear of anticipated horror that impels me to write...
...world-renowned scientists who once worked together to develop the atom bomb squared off last night over the next development in the arms race--weapons for outer space...
...structure's outer stones will be high enough for people to sit on, and children will be able to play in the water, he added...
...idea is certainly appealing. All of the murderous megatonnage of those fearsome intercontinental ballistic missiles would be rendered useless. The Soviet Union launches a surprise nuclear attack? Zap! U.S. laser beams from outer space blast the enemy booster rockets out of Soviet skies before they can dispatch their multiple warheads on long lethal flights...