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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II version of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, Antigone, takes the stage this weekend at the Adams House Kronauer Space this weekend and next. While the plot is the same as Sophocles' ancient play, Anouillh's version involves everything from Nazis to occupied France in a play involving a cast of seven...
Brecht's intriguing look at the lives of beggars, prostitutes and thieves takes over the Loeb Mainstage this weekend for a two-week performance run. Involving a large cast of 12 men and 12 women, Threepenny Opera should provide a welcome study break from those weary Reading Period evenings...
...PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (Morrow; $19.95). In this inventive, indignant novel, a boisterous cast and a spirited story line propel a sawed- off Christly caricature through two decades of U.S. foreign policy debacles...
...organization called Citizens for Common Sense, is so unadventurous that George Bush makes jokes about him. The most exciting thing about Pete Wilson -- dubbed one of the more anonymous people in American politics -- was his showing up on the Senate floor straight from the hospital in his pajamas to cast an important vote. Wilson was so unremarkable during his first term that one-third of California voters were unable even to rate his performance...
...resulting wealth, says Reynolds, ignited the flames of family ruin. Despite the author's wooden narration, he portrays a cast of heirs straight out of Dynasty: wastrels, alcoholics and eccentrics who became entangled in sordid divorces and murky crimes. Patrick's uncle Smith Reynolds, a daredevil pilot, died of a gunshot wound and was deemed a suicide. The author suggests that his uncle's second wife actually did the deed. Patrick Reynolds rarely saw his father, R.J. (Dick) Reynolds Jr., a chain smoker and heavy drinker who married four times and died at 58 of emphysema...