Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rose, by itself, is worth the price of this book; it is the most powerful entry in Dubus' impressive canon. Some decades down the road, enough justification will have cohered to call Rose a classic American story. And it is not, in truth, the product of a last worthless evening but of an artist in full control of his sympathies and skill...
...album could conceivably outsell Springsteen's classic Born in the U.S.A., which has sold about 20 million copies, but may not catch Michael Jackson's Thriller (35 million copies). Even so, the price of the Springsteen package is more than three times what Thriller costs (about $8), and thus the Boss's live recordings could easily generate more revenue than any other product in music history...
With the characters changing cosmic eras and lifetimes as often as they do, this play is extremely taxing for the performers. Since The Skin Of Our Teeth is both a classic play and a complex one, it's good material to work with and easy material to mess up. Fortunately, Jonathan Tolins' directing keeps an unstructured, multi-faceted play extremely coherent. Oleson and Clark are strong centers to a strong cast where even those playing minor roles are impressive--in particular, Mary Beth Hewitt as the grace-under-pressure and deadpan stage manager...
...could philosophize about the Tasty, the ebb and flow of different types of people all caught up in the constant motion of time. I could wax eloquently about how the clamor of people crowded into this vintage 1950s diner mimicked the musical rhythms of "Classic Hits" WZLX...
...believes its computer makers could be hurt by rising semiconductor costs. At Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., the cost of producing a system containing 144 one-megabit memory chips has nearly doubled because the semiconductors have increased in price from $22 to $107. Says Jerry Sugar, president of Classic Technology, a computer-systems maker in San Jose: "I called Washington to protest. Higher chip prices are going to kill the U.S. computer industry." A more likely possibility is that some U.S. computer manufacturers will consider moving their plants to the Far East, where Japanese chips are still being sold...