Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the most promising actors in this play are cut short when their characters are murdered, but, gratifyingly, the show is stolen by two who manage to evade death until near the end. As Sir Lawrence Wargrave, a notorious "hanging judge," Woody Hill paces through his scenes like a hawk, interrogating other characters in courtroom style and calmly remarking, "We've been invited here by a madman, probably homicidal." Miss Vera Claythorne (Reid Cottingham) uses physical objects perfectly, obsessively adjusting the rings on her finger and hovering in the background with a cigarette like an angel of death...
...revenue increase of an estimated $500-600 million dollars will probably come from "sin" taxes on alcohol and possibly cigarettes, as well as an increased gasoline tax and a cut in capital gains deduction. Administration officials say the hike would fund programs like employment training, aid to cities and towns and universal health insurance...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci ended the debate with a resolution rescinding a "curb cut" for the Star Market at Porter Square. The resolution restricts Star Market's ability to enter the loading dock near the residential street at its rear...
House Speaker Thomas Foley privately proposed dropping the hundreds of extraneous spending programs -- and the capital-gains cut -- from the budget- busting bill. But Darman turned down the offer, thinking he could get the kind of trimmed-down budget he preferred as well as the capital-gains cut. When it became clear the Administration would be charged with favoring capital gains over budget cutting, Darman relented. But by then it was too late to stop sequestration from taking effect...
...Tuesday night was a reminder that there are limits to what even television can do when electricity and telephones and highways are knocked out. By the time most networks closed down for the night after five or six hours of coverage, San Jose and Santa Cruz were still disconcertingly cut off from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland's I-880 was unknown, and it had been impossible for reporters to convey the full flavor of what life was like for 6 million residents of the Bay Area on a night they will never forget. "The instinct...