Word: breakthrough
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...hasn't worked out that way. Directors have generally been content either to substitute handsome actors for the singers supplying the sound track or simply to shoot a stage production. A breakthrough came in 1975, when Ingmar Bergman produced a charming The Magic Flute that began in a replica of Stockholm's 18th century Drottningholm Court Theater and from time to time moved beyond the confines of the stage. Even more ambitious was Joseph Losey's mesmeric Don Giovanni (1979), expansively set amid the Palladian splendors of northern Italy...
There were hints of a breakthrough on only one of the problems. Fortunately it was the most important: runaway deficits. For the first time, President Reagan softened his formerly obdurate opposition to any reduction in the giant military buildup he has planned...
...behalf. Administration officials noted that, even as Hussein was conferring with Reagan last week, a chief aide to Arafat, Khalid al Hassan, was staying at the same hotel as Hussein and was being kept informed of the discussions by the Jordanian delegation. For once, the signs of a genuine breakthrough appeared to be at hand...
...crisis also produced a breakthrough in Ray's torturous translation struggle. An Indian woman, marveling at Helen's treatment of the boys, used a word they had never heard: shum, which means giving without receiving anything in return. This was the word Ray needed to translate "love" into Ixil...
...bionic breakthrough has sparked a wave of well-wishing telegrams to Clark and his family, including one from President and Mrs. Reagan, and calls from all over the world-one from a Soviet reporter requesting information. One unhappy occurrence: perhaps alerted of the Clarks' absence by news reports, vandals ransacked their home...