Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th minute, Harvard's efforts said off in the only goal of the game. Striker John Catliff, located about 20 yards out' on the left side of the pitch, passed into the goal area to the waiting feet of midfielder Paul Nicholas, who faked the drawers off a Yale defender and put the ball past Yale 'keeper Jeff Duback...
...thus presents a dual challenge to its cast--they must portray both lofty historical figures and loonies at the same time. The actors attack this problem with great skill, capturing the madness and hysteria of France's Reign of Terror as well as of the grimmer episodes of the 20th century. Directed by Maja Hellmold, this Marat/Sade suceeds in drawing us into an asylum that is a microcosm of our own crazy world...
...INMATES' extravagant lunacy, however, obscures part of Weiss's political message under a barrage of pranks and gibberish. A post-World War II dramatist, he aims his satire of the Reign of Terror at 20th-century political folly. Too often, however, the patients of Charenton drown out Marat's speeches with their rumpus of wild cheers and spiteful taunts...
...also uneasy about talk of his role in a Nehru dynasty. "I don't see it like that at all," he once said. "There's a very big challenge before us today: how to get India into the 20th century." He speaks of the need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism and the country's age-old social inequities. "We must get the poor and the weak of India out of their rut, out of the morass they are stuck in," he said recently. Most political experts see him as a pragmatist, like his late brother, who favors a somewhat...
...Government's yearlong freeze on Rich's U.S. assets. In return, the Swiss company paid back about $130 million that was owed to 14 U.S. and European banks. The agreement allowed another Rich firm to sell its 50% stake in TCP Holdings, the parent company of 20th Century-Fox. Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million...