Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasion of his 100th anniversary, O'Neill's revolutionary accomplishments are nowhere questioned, certainly not in the land of his birth. But the continued vibrancy of his plays -- their ability in performance to command the attendance and attention of a live audience -- has become a matter of some dispute. The centenary has, to be sure, sparked revivals of some of his works by theater groups across the country. But a mere handful of his 50 plays are now resurrected for the theater with any regularity. And of this small sample, which includes Ah, Wilderness! and The Iceman Cometh, only...
...artistic director, and has retained a splendid company: Bruce Davison as the playwright, Holland Taylor as his discontented sister, Keene Curtis as their fussy paterfamilias and Emmy winner Nancy Marchand as the mother. Puffing up her husband, belittling her offspring, getting slowly sozzled with "just a splash" -- a command she never barks the same way twice -- Marchand at first appears silly and superficial. Like the play, she turns out to have surprising depths...
Nightline and its host Ted Koppel command a great deal of respect from the public. People trust Koppel to ask penetrating, frank questions that reflect their own concerns. Koppel is also well-known for his persistence, making sure that his guests do not get off the hook without answering his question or at least clearly showing that they want to avoid answering...
...roving eye, as public scold and portable conscience. In private, she can be funny and informal, tilting her head sideways when she laughs, so that the band of gray in her hair fans out like a comet's tail. But on the page, she emanates an implacable gravity, a command of literature and philosophy that leaves one riveted, if also a bit self-reproachful. While you were flipping channels, it seems, she was laboring under the burden of consciousness. While you were rooting for the Dodgers, she was sifting through Artaud. "Reading is my television," she once said. For most...
...purge in which tens of thousands of Chileans were exiled, tortured or executed. Meanwhile, the politically explosive gulf between rich and poor has steadily grown wider. "We broke an authoritarian system," said Ricardo Lagos, president of the Party for Democracy, one of the 16 groups that made up the Command for the No, which led the campaign to defeat Pinochet. "Now our work is to reconstruct a democratic system...