Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the petroleum crisis of the past decade, which threatened the industrial might of the West, the oil slide is changing the balance of economic power. The price drop, from a peak of $35 per bbl. in 1981, has greatly reduced the flow of billions upon billions of dollars from consuming countries to the producers. The so-called petrodollar drain of 1979-83 had contributed to the worst global economic slump since the Great Depression. But cheap oil will act as a giant tax cut, or perhaps a lottery jackpot, for the consumers and businesses of such large industrial countries...
While it might be argued that Kershishian is making a stylistic point, the starkness of the stage is infuriating, particularly for the concert scenes which beg at least a large slide backdrop of a screaming horde of teeny boppers or some illusion of grandeur. The aural illusion needs a stronger physical complement...
...control room lighting cues are still a source of controversy. Keshishian checks the slide system. "The slide projectors are just not that hot, and we don't have the money to rent the real good ones," says Keshishian. He notices that one of the slides is out of order. "This is the sort of thing that has be fixed," he tells the control room crew...
Wuthering Heights kept the largeaudience waiting almost a half hour as the"techies" tried to correct last minute problemswith the lights and slides. But once the showbegan it became clear that the slide projectorswere going to refuse to work no matter what...
...minutes away. On the lusty waves of the Dead Sea, one could just picture a pirate ride, in which scurvy Hassidic blackbeards unroll replicas of the ancient scrolls in search of buried treasure. For thrills and chills, the Wailing Wall would make an amazing house of horror, complete with slide-projection wraiths and plastic mummies. And for a big finale, one could construct and demolish the city of Jericho twice daily with high pitched sound and invisible lasers...