Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from cultural schizophrenia: "I . . . shall always be two people in one skin, which is not a comfortable thing to be." Only Anjuli can make him whole. As the Indian princess, Amy Irving is properly equipped with saris and cliches, but she looks as though she had been dipped in cocoa for the role. Still, Irving bears up well in a difficult part; it cannot have been easy to play a dignified love scene and utter lines like ". . . men are careless of their seed...
...seems to have gripped even one of the stage's most adroit neorealists, Marsha Norman. She won her reputation with the 1979 drama about a woman's leaving prison, Getting Out, and last year received the Pulitzer Prize for 'Night, Mother, a mundanely detailed conversation over cocoa and marshmallows between a daughter who intends to commit suicide and a mother desperate to stop her. Now, in Traveler in the Dark, Norman has turned away from the art-as-life style and has crafted a witty, eloquent, far-ranging and altogether too clever play...
...previously demonstrated understanding of women, and a hearteningly grand ambition. The play seeks to debate science and faith, love and self-knowledge, the rage to grow and the resistance to change. Norman writes candidly and capably about God, reason and honor. And those topics do count for more than cocoa and marshmallows. - By William A. Henry...
...result of a two-year drought that has all but stilled the hydroelectric system, which supplies 92% of the country's energy. Unfortunately, it occurred as the economy was already struggling with the effects of a slowdown that began in 1977, when earnings from key exports, especially cocoa and coffee, dropped 40%. Without electricity, industrial capacity has plunged an estimated 35%. Construction is off 50%. Total business losses are officially placed at $80 million so far this winter, out of an annual G.N.P. of $10 billion. Lacina Coulibaly, president...
DIED. Kurt Debus, 74, German scientist who was director from 1952 to 1974 of NASA'S Cape Canaveral facility (now the Kennedy Space Center), overseeing such landmark projects as the launches of the first U.S. manned spaceflight and Apollo 11 's moon mission; of a heart attack; in Cocoa, Fla. Debus worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear...