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...fathers in splendid new tragicomedies from Neil Simon and Herb Gardner. If your taste runs to grandes dames, Rosemary Harris enacts the mean matriarch in Simon's previous play, Lost in Yonkers, while Lynn Redgrave evokes the aggrieved wife of a self-anointed genius in Ibsen's The Master Builder...
...Stick"--a nickname given during her freshman year--laughs off and denies her reputation as the team's morale builder...
...miles of hair-thin optical fiber, the network not only offers 78 channels of TV but also lets subscribers browse through the Sears catalog, check their bank accounts and select from a large menu a movie of their choice anytime they want. Perhaps most surprising is the builder of the sophisticated TV system: the local telephone company, GTE. Says Betty: "I thought the only thing phone and cable companies had in common was that they both dig up the streets...
...defenseman Bob Manno, 36, a former N.H.L. All-Star winding down his career in dignified exile a long way from his native Niagara Falls, demonstrated the fine points of public relations. "I waited eight long years to play in the Olympics," he said. "This has been a great character builder." Character was not the principal goal of the medal hopefuls as the final, single elimination round began this week. Each face-off won and goal scored brought them one step closer to gold...
...going to spend $25,000, I don't want something that looks like this. The Japanese have a better product." Similar reasoning led the Los Angeles transportation commission to authorize the purchase of 41 light railcars for the city's Metro Rail Green Line from Sumitomo, a Japanese builder, though a bid from an Idaho-based manufacturer was $5 million lower...