Word: rifted
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...INTERVIEWS WITH the Crimson last week, Olmert and Aloni expressed markedly different positions on key policy questions, differences which reflect the depth of the rift in Israeli political thought...
...events that began last June when a car crashed in a small town 150 miles south of Belgrade. Local police, arriving on the scene to fill out a routine accident report, inadvertently uncovered what has been hailed as the largest, most efficiently organized conspiracy against Tito since his 1948 rift with the Soviet Union...
...RIFT has chosen the Persephone myth as a symbol of the change from the matriarchy to the patriarchy that occurred in western prehistory. The natural bond between mother and daughter--between female and female--is forcibly broken. Woman, who possesses the womb and is therefore the source of life, is subjugated to man, whose power and symbol is death...
...Return seem to be directly related to the way in which it was created. The play was collectively written by all the members of the group and while one person did act as director, there seems to have been no attempt to structure the play around her personal vision. RIFT is dedicated to living its philosophy as well as acting it on stage. The way in which the group creates its plays--through gradual improvisation of a central idea with all the members of the cast participating equally--reflects its desire to change the male-dominated hierarchical system of authority...
...question which then arises is whether or not theater by committee can ever produce a consistent artistic vision that has emotional as well as intellectual authenticity. Persephone's Return is a fairly convincing argument that this is impossible. The characters and situations in the RIFT production never come alive; they remain abstract truths that need to be clothed in the flesh and blood of one person's experiences and convictions...