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...good stead since 1982 when she persuaded Oxford University Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will...
...audiences to unconventional, often fiercely intellectual interpretations of the classics. Ciulei will leave next year to move to New York City and will become a free-lance director. For his final Guthrie season, he has restored the company's tradition of rotating repertory. Among the current offerings: Cyrano de Bergerac and an adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. The highlight of the season, however, is Ciulei's final production as artistic director, an idiosyncratic and brilliant Dream that is probably the best since Brook...
...which he chairs. Iacocca already spends much of his time at his New York office. Furthermore, despite his denials, Iacocca is rumored to be considering a run for the presidency, and a move to the East Coast would place him nearer the center of national political action. SEVERANCE PAY Bergerac's Golden Parachute...
Most people who lose their job receive a final bonus based on the length of time they have been employed. For some this severance pay permits a more comfortable retirement. In the case of Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac, 53, losing a job was probably the best financial deal he ever made. Last week Bergerac resigned as chairman after Pantry Pride won a three-month fight to control the company. He and eight Revlon board members had agreed to step down to allow for a trouble-free transition to the new owners. Under an agreement worked out with Revlon's board...
...last year before the takeover, Bergerac made $1.3 million. Wall Streeters say he earned his salary. He diversified Revlon away from cosmetics and into the health-care business, acquiring companies that made such popular products as Turns antacids and Oxy acne medicine. Bergerac now plans to play tennis and spend time with his family before examining several job offers he has already received. He will not need to choose one too quickly. AIRLINES A Pair of Jumbo Deals...