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Director Timothy M. Marrinan ’06 and producer Eric S. Chen ’07 began staging Sam Shepards’ 1978 play “Seduced” on April 20 in the Adams House Kronauer Space...
...play’s action transpires on a spartan, black brick stage. Marrinan and Chen have dressed the set walls and ceiling with chicken wire—giving the stage the effect of a bomb shelter or asylum. A small television set, broadcasting static, sits at the front right of the stage, and a small table and serving tray, at the stage’s rear left, comprise all of the play’s major props...
Xiao has plenty of problems to tend to in Chongqing . For one thing, the city is woefully short of transportation. Says Chen Zhihui, the municipal planning commission's vice president: "There are not enough trucks, cars, trains or taxis. We have to plan to import more." Hotel space is insufficient, and air service is inadequate. Chongqing's airport lies in a valley that is fogbound so frequently in winter that one of every three flights must be canceled...
...their annual forecast, the economists agreed that East Asia would spend another year in the doldrums. Though the board members expect a slight acceleration of growth rates in South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, they foresee further declines in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. Said Edward Chen, a board member and director of the Center of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong: "I do not see a very bright picture for 1986." Only China, where capitalist-style reforms have helped drive growth to an estimated 12% this year, is expected to expand at a very rapid...
...economists agreed that the year could be profitable if it encourages the Pacific countries to re-examine their economic strategies. Even the threat of Western import barriers could be helpful if it forces countries to find different trading partners and new ways to grow. Concluded Hong Kong's Chen: "Protectionism can be an early signal to adjust. And only countries that learn to adjust can prosper." --By Charles P. Alexander Forecasts by TIME's Pacific Board of Economists...