Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mastergate has artfully captured the "whodunit" appeal of the real-life Iran-contra hearings. Set Designer Phillip Jung has fashioned the ART into a virtual facsimile of the congressional chambers. Chandeliers, oak tables, and even the ubiquitous scurrying page serve to paint a faithful picture of reality. To add to the reality or rather, surreality of the committee hearings, a network news investigation is conducted via closed circuit television throughout the play. Five television screens have been hoisted above the different seating sections to effect the play-like hearings, or rather, the hearing-like play...
...some neighborhood activists add, Healy is already calling the shots on policy issues--particularly those involving development. But the city manager says he just follows the council's plans, despite an occasional communication gap between his office and the councillors...
...higher education outlay currently under debate is part of Dukakis' record $13.4 billion budget proposal for fiscal 1990, a $1 billion increase over last year's budget. While many legislators say the governor's plan will not make it through the legislature, they add that education funds could survive...
Alfonsin's warning reflected the jitters of ordinary Argentines, who now add + the threat of political extremism to their litany of dissatisfactions. Faced with a collapsing economy, a strong Peronist revival and a restive military, Argentines will soon go to the polls in search of democratic solutions. Daily life in the once proud nation has been crippled by a 400% inflation rate, 12% unemployment or underemployment and, since 1981, a 40% drop in real wages. A crumbling infrastructure and labor strikes have curtailed mail delivery, disrupted phone service and left an energy shortage so severe that electricity is rationed...
...achieves the seemingly impossible by overplaying the loudmouth junkyard magnate Harry Brock, who is eight parts tyrant to one part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible human being...