SPRING 1996 * VOLUME 32 * NUMBER 2 DINOSAURS _ 10 Searcbingfor inspiration among bones and mytbs; a designer's sketcbbook BY DANILA KOROGODSKY MICRO PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROllERS: ww COST AUTOMATION FOR TIlE STAGE 18 Leaming to love ladder logic BY LOREN SCHREIBER LINEAR DECORATION IN TIlE STAGE DESIGN OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE OPERAS 25 Two-dimendional stylized sbapes communicate tbe essence of Cbinese opera BY LI WEI A MANDATE FOR DESIGN: 34 CAMERON PORTEOUS AND THE SHAW FESTIVAL Creating a window tbrougb wbicb to look at Sbaw and bis contemporaries BY ARNOLD WENGROW IRENE COREY AND THE EVERYMAN PLAYERS: OBSERVATIO 'S ON A COLLABORATIVE THEATRE ENSEMBLE How Corey's ear~)1 44 _ work involved close relationsbips witb actors and tbe director BY NICOLE FAURANT and SYLVIA J. HILLYARD PANNELL LEARNING TO LIVE WITH OSHA _ 49 Taking your first five steps toward compliance BY STEVE BOONE USITT GUIDELINE FOR ASTANDARD TECHNICAL INFORMATION PACKAGE 54 Adopting tbis standard format could make "tecb riders" easier for everyone to use BY USITI TECHNICAL PRODUCTION COMMISSION WIRE ROPE TERMINATIONS _ 58 ON THE COVER Two new USITT standards BY USITI RIGGING AND STAGE MACHINERY STANDARDS COMMITIEE LETTERS _ 61 NEW PRODUCT REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS _ _ INSIDE USITT ADVERTISER INDEX 63 65 INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS 1995 TD&T INDEX 8 _ _ 68 Danita Korogodsky painted tbe cover illllstration specially for tbis issue. His article, "Dinosaurs," wbicb starts on page 10, profJides plenty more examples oftbis talented artist's work. He gave liS some otber cboices of cover art, but preferred tbat we use tbis one because it expresses "primative mysterJI and power, " tbe same poetic metapbors wbicb inspired bis tbeatrical designs for tbe play. 70 72 TD&T SPRING I 9 9 6