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...time for the past twenty years not as an astronaut, nor as an actor, but as a playwright. And it was as a playwright that Shepard came to Boston last month to stage a production on the Loeb mainstage with Shepard's friend and collaborator avante garde director Joseph Chaikin...
...Shepard announced to a group of Harvard students yesterday that he had decided to postpone the completion of that project with Chaikin. The production, originally slated for completion sometime this month, was funded by the American Repertoiry Theater (A.R.T.) but would have appeared on the Loeb Experimental stage, Jonathan E. Marks, University liason officer with the A.R.T., said yesterday...
...Since all these countries have access to the same machines and patterns in this low-tech business, their cheaper wages allow them to drive down costs. The typical garment worker in China makes 16? an hour; in Taiwan 57?, and in Hong Kong slightly more than $1. President Sol Chaikin of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union contends that his members "are not fat-cat steelworkers or auto workers." Their average wage is just over $5 an hour. The move to foreign goods has been accelerated by the renewed popularity of private-label merchandise. Retailers like New York City...
Lower production costs do not necessarily translate into cheaper price tags on the rack. According to Chaikin, department stores have been taking higher and higher markups on their clothes. Twenty years ago, stores added only about 65% to the wholesale list price; today the margin exceeds 100%. Chaikin contends that imported items are marked up even higher so that they sell at the same prices as domestically made goods...
SAVAGE/LOVE at the Nucleo Eclettico theater is modern love poetry set to music, set to an actor and actress, set to life. The playwrights, Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, combine drama and poetry to explore all the problems and possibilities of communication between a MAN (Kelvin Kerage) and a WOMAN (Maryann Bergonzi). Itself an experiment in communication, this stylistic compromise of genres achieves a rare and successful blend of sensitivity and irony...