Word: demanding
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...nearly a decade since a new Tom Stoppard play has been seen on Broadway, not because he hasn't been working or has lost his arch wit and narrative originality, but because commercial producers fear that his learned , tragicomedies demand too much of audiences intellectually and indulge them too little emotionally. Stoppard's Hapgood mingled a spy story, a love story, games of mistaken identity and reflections on physics, and has never had a major U.S. production. The same fate may well await his new play, although it is by far the best from any British writer in years...
...DeBoers would almost certainly have waited for years before finding a child. But Iowa allows for private adoptions, an arrangement that has become increasingly common as the number of parents seeking healthy infants has outstripped the supply 40 to 1. State adoption agencies can't possibly meet the demand, so prospective parents conduct their own searches, place classified ads, hire adoption lawyers to try to find a baby on their...
...visual. My voice may be diminished by the resounding bang of authority, but I call now upon the administration of this great university and upon every person who is committed to the advancement of education in the arts within this institution, regardless of whom their audience may be, to demand "Veritas" in this most disturbing matter. Do not again allow two faces on the arts to be visible, or again from one side of the mouth utter "Let's celebrate the arts at Harvard," and from the other side say "Let's eliminate the 'Mother of the movement...
Faced with that possibility, the Egyptians had no choice but to demand his extradition. The extradition process involves both the Justice and State Departments, which means that their are plenty of opportunities for a screw-up. But the extended time frame also means that the Unites States could change its position and do the right thing...
...bypass the Baby Bells is by joining forces with local cable operators, such as through the rumored deal with TCI. AT&T would provide cable systems with the valuable switching technology they need to offer interactive, or two-way, services such as home shopping and movies-on- demand. This type of combined strength was the rationale behind the deal between Time Warner (parent company of this magazine) and U S West, one of the Baby Bells...