Word: backyard
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...SEVEN GUITARS August Wilson sets his latest play in the backyard of a ramshackle tenement in 1948 Pittsburgh, where a gifted young blues singer schemes and dreams through his last desperate days. The Pulitzer prizewinner's new work, which has played in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco, is a rich ragout of melodrama and mysticism that should be cooking by the time it reaches Broadway this spring...
...that many Harvard teams are now playing the role of underdog. Football, cross country track, field hockey, etc., are all fighting to survive with success, whether with much fanfare (football) or with-out (field hockey). But these underdogs should not get discouraged, because an example right in our own backyard gives hope...
...Henry Brown's screenplay, nothing much is added to earlier work in these fields by Francis Coppola and Oliver Stone. Yet Dead Presidents is well worth watching for the Hugheses' prodigal camera finesse. In some of their elaborate tracking shots (at a prom-night party, over a series of backyard fences), you get a hint that their art could mature quickly. Cinema needs the Hugheses at their best--which is yet to come...
...McDonnell Douglas. The White House says the agreement will create 100,000 jobs, mostly in Washington state and California. "Although this deal is not quite a quid pro quo, it can be considered a partial payback for our role in keeping Saddam Hussein out of Saudi Arabia's backyard during the Persian Gulf War," says defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "The Saudis would look pretty bad if they turned to Europe's Airbus to build the planes after what the U.S. did for them in the war." Saudia, the national airline of Saudi Arabia, will purchase 23 777-200 twin jets...
...years. The estimated yield this year will be just 66 million tons, down from last year's already paltry 80 million tons. Russians will not starve, however, because up to half the vegetables and a third of the meat eaten in the country are produced privately, often in backyard plots. Politicians, however, could lose big: they face parliamentary elections in mid-December, just when food prices are expected to rise...