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...Lulu, directed by Lee Breuer. Of all the best ART productions, this one raised the most hackles. Breuer applied shameless directorial pyrotechnics--literally and figuratively--to Wedekind's two Lulu plays, and of course to make a single evening out of them he had to cut and chop some. The production was, in the best sense, experimental; Breuer zeroed in on the essence of the myth Wedekind was working out in his plays--the rise and fall of a wild beast of sex--and tried to find a contemporary stage technology and idiom to match. He found it in touches...
...delicate package of budget cuts, Ronald Reagan carefully corralled a herd of "sacred cows"-Veterans Administration disability benefits and Medicare payments for the elderly, among other programs-that he vowed not to touch. Last week, in a move that ensured debate for months to come, the President proposed to chop away at perhaps the most sacred of all cows: Social Security benefits. The plan not only ignited protests from senior citizens' groups around the nation, but finally gave the badly bruised Democrats in Congress a battle they could enthusiastically join-and perhaps stand a good chance of winning. Proclaimed...
Actually, they were for a moment, because Crimson starter Bill Larson forced leadoff bitter Dan Costello to chop to third for one up, one down. Things fell apart just about then, however: a walk, single and walk loaded the bases, a two-base error brought two runs home and Yale was off and running. Then single, single, walk, single, double, single, two-base error, single and three-base error, and it was 11-0, with reliever Billy Doyle coming and going along...
...sense of the value of things. When copper prices begin to climb, urban vandals start pulling pipes out of abandoned apartment buildings. Gold prices soar, and thieves start ripping necklaces off passersby. Now, with aluminum prices on the rise (up 36% since 1979), black market entrepreneurs are starting to chop down and steal streetlight poles...
...market of students because of a drop in the college-age population--a large portion of which is cynical about the value of a degree in a world marked by rising tuition and cab-driving Ph.D.s. Compounding these problems is the Reagan-Stockman offensive against federal spending, which will chop away at college budgets throughout cuts in grants and student loans...