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These days, to judge from its appearance in No Surrender, Liverpool looks like Beirut without the palm trees. The streets are grizzled; the council flats could have been designed by the architect for Attica; the Charleston Club, a night spot where most of the film's action unspools, is a little triumph of dejected bad taste. Young predators attack a blind pensioner or prowl parking lots in search of black mischief. And the police are apt to break into the wrong home and leave the place a shambles. Seems it happens all the time. "We'll get a carpenter straight...
...reinvigorate the text, Miller and Director Peter Wood have gone back to its beginnings. The inspiration for the piece, Miller acknowledges, was Studs Terkel's sprawling oral history Hard Times. But during pre-Broadway workshops and a Charleston, S.C., tryout, Miller was repeatedly counseled by critics to shift emphasis from a documentary-style montage of vignettes to a focus on a particular family, resembling his own, whose growing deprivation and humiliation reflected the Depression in microcosm. These semiautobiographical characters proved unable by themselves to bear the weight of enormous events; meanwhile, the play's sweep had been diminished...
Secretary of Education WILLIAM BENNETT at the Citadel, Charleston, S.C.: "Isaiah says, 'All our works are nothing--our molten images are empty wind.' There is support for theoretical pessimism. But practically, operationally, you should not bring such an attitude to your tasks. You should go about your business with some measure of enterprise, of seriousness, of good humor and of interest. I do not mean to recommend, as the Schlitz Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer...
...relatives and close friends who attended the Jewish ceremony at Big Sur, Calif., overlooking the Pacific. Though Winger, 30, and Hutton, 25, had known each other for a couple of years, things got serious four or five months ago. The day after the wedding, the two flew to Charleston, S.C., where Hutton is beginning a new film, appropriately called Made in Heaven. Winger has also resumed work: she has just completed Legal Eagles with Robert Redford in New York City...
...Americans at the airport wondered if he had changed his mind or if the furtive escape plan had been foiled by the mounting opposition to his regime. Early-rising Haitians in the area would surely spot the immense U.S. C-141 Starlifter cargo plane that had flown from the Charleston, S.C., Air Force base and was sitting on the runway at Port-au-Prince...