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...good voices, speak with commendable clarity, and represent varying facets of Sylvia Plath's personality. The stage is almost bone bare. The women wear what look like white nightgowns in the first act, and white surgical gowns and caps in Act II. This effects a contrast with the Stygian-dark moods and bloodletting images of the poems...
...things chortled in infandous rhythms of ululation in dissonances of extreme morbidity and cacodemonial ghastliness. As I somehow anticipated, the cowled figure, his face ever hidden, approached and tugged my pajama sleeve, pulling me toward the open Lovecraft tomb. Forgetting danger, cleanliness and reason, I ventured into the yawning Stygian recesses of the inner earth, down inclined passageways whose walls were coated with the detestable slimy niter of the earth's bow els. My whole being choked on the stinking confluence of incense fumes, and a cancerous terror clutched my chest with strangling tendrils. Penultimately we reached a vast...
GOLDEN BUDDHAS, Greek Gods, Zen mystics, tigers, bulls, earthy wood nymphs, and even such personified abstractions as Stygian Sleep and Pleasure cavort their way across the Loeb's colorful arena to execute in rapid-fire "Laugh-In" style succession the Chicago Project's string of Chinese Wisecrackers. This melange was originally conceived as class exercises and improvisation lessons at Columbia College of Communication in Chicago, a radio, film, and performing arts conservatory. Transformed by Director Don Sanders and members of the Columbia theatre collective into a fusion of fifteen comic vignettes, the performance intertwines Zen mysticism and Greek myths...
...Village audience might perhaps take to this austere and demanding creation. If puzzled, though, young listeners had better skip Boulez's stygian liner notes. "The necessary transposition," Boulez writes, describing the setting of words to music, "demands the invention of equivalences; equivalences that may be applied both to the exterior form of the musical invention and to its quality or inner structure." Fortunately, when Boulez talks, he is entertaining and outspoken. So much so that he might even be able to explain those liner notes to the Villagers...
Four years ago, a massive power failure plunged the Northeast into stygian blackness. Last month disaster loomed again when the million-kilowatt generator at Con Ed's Ravenswood plant short-circuited. Since two smaller generators were temporarily out of order, New York suffered a "brownout" that dimmed lights and made air conditioners wheeze. Last week Luce sighed with relief when "Big Allis" (named for the Allis-Chalmers generator) came back on the line. But relief can only be temporary for Con Ed. It must currently generate 7,350,000 kw. at peak load, and 10.9 million within a decade...