Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling that confuses us. In some sense, the performance still works because the character herself is confused--but overall it doesn't come off as naturally as it should. Fasolino does manage a certain sardonic spunky style that carries her strongly in the beginning, but as this falls apart too effortlessly, so too does her portrait of personal despair...
...these sessions in an auditorium in the old Executive Office Building, Reagan Aide Richard Darman played the role of moderator. They worried about Reagan's evident desire to answer every assault on his record; his meandering, overly detailed responses had cost him points two weeks earlier in Louisville. Apart from the rehearsals, the President held briefing sessions with such advisers as Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, longtime Reagan Adviser Stuart Spencer and White House Aides Baker and Michael Deaver...
...Apart from economic problems, the Israeli Cabinet plans to address itself soon to the question of withdrawing Israeli forces from southern Lebanon. Peres has emphasized that Israel is ready to bring its troops home but would like assurances from Syria that the security of southern Lebanon, and therefore of northern Israel, will be respected. Specifically, he wants a pledge that Syria will not send its own troops to occupy the area the Israelis leave, will bar Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from re-entering southern Lebanon, and will allow the area immediately north of the border to be controlled...
...such as Libya and Iran have been quietly undercutting official prices to keep sales steady. "They're showing an inability to handle a moderately growing pie," says Arnold Safer, president of the Energy Futures Group consulting firm. "When there are a few more goodies to share, they fall apart...
...borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace and pain beneath the raillery in Much Ado. But Cyrano is extraordinary, unique; his heart and his compulsive excellence set him apart from other mortals more than his prominent proboscis. Jacobi, for all his energetic resourcefulness, has neither the swagger nor the stature for the part. He commandeers the stage with his ambition to fill the role, but his shortcomings are as plain as the nose on Cyrano's face. -By Richard...