Word: centering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic portrayal of a grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family tale at Washington's Kennedy Center...
...GEOGRAPHY OF LUCK. The drifters and hustlers in Marlane Meyer's desert panorama mingle the doomed banality of Sam Shepard characters with the quixotic blessings of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...workload has become so heavy at United's 140-acre repair center in San Francisco, the largest in the U.S., that the carrier has begun to phase out its lucrative business of providing maintenance for other airlines. Maintenance projects at the base can require up to 100,000 mechanic-hours for the overhaul of a single 747 jumbo jet. "We've added 3,000 people in less than a year," says Joseph O'Gorman, United's senior vice president for maintenance operations, "and we're looking at another 1,000 in the next six months for the care and feeding...
...Weill's most ambitious opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), seems to be set on a wildly imaginary Florida Gold Coast. But to Jonathan Miller, the gifted British director who was commissioned to stage a new Mahagonny at the enterprising, young Los Angeles Music Center Opera, there could be only one locale. "Hollywood," he said before last week's opening night, "seemed to be a living metaphor...
...Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington...