Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...director Hogan warns against serving the aims of cross casting on a purely political level while ignoring the aims of the script that is being performed. "It's got to work well so that the public can see there's nothing to be afraid of," he says...
Should it come to war, however, American analysts see signs that the Iraqi dictator is preparing a three-part scenario for victory. To Western ears it sounds more like a script for Gotterdammerung: most of Iraq would undoubtedly be bombed into flaming ruins. But the U.S. and the West might well suffer horrifying consequences too: economic ruin brought on by superexpensive oil, biological as well as chemical-warfare attacks on troops and civilians, and terrorist outrages on a scale and of a deadliness never seen before...
...barren, and the difference of agreement between the two characters is highlighted with a minimum of movement. One clever touch is Belgrader's decision to spice the 18th Century satire with modern references and expletives; they serve both to shock the audience into attention and remind us that the script has meaning for contemporary society. Another is Shalhoub's coughing jag, with its reference to Topol's song "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof...
Where does this decade still live on in all its sleazy splendor? At the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where the six-member script selection committee has picked its 1991 production, Safari Sagoodi, by Lawrence E. Finer '91 and Jonathan R. Aibel...
Maybe. But even in the Pentagon there are commanders who consider this all an Air Force pipe dream. Other experts point out that the script is modeled on the stunning Israeli success in the Six-Day War of 1967. But 23 years later, technology is vastly different, and the Iraqis are much better armed, trained and led than the Egyptians were then. "You don't win a war only with air strikes," says Zeev Eytan at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv. Administration estimates of American casualties in a quick...