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Under the clever direction of Jon Matthews Magaril, the cast captivates both adults and children as they portray the myriad of Wonderland characters, including Tweedles Dee and Dum, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter and The Door Mouse, and the devilish Cheshire Cat Led by the ebullient Amy Brenneman as Alice, the cast of seven entertains the audience with lively caricatures of the fairy-tale-like creatures...
Alexander's attempt to withstand his restraints placed on him by his stereotypically devilish stepfather (Jan Malmsio) is vividly etched as the Bishop beats him while trying to defeat his rebelliousness. Throughout his trials to escape his stepfather. Alexander is visited--or rather haunted--by the ghost of his father--who, ironically enough, died while paying Hamlet's father. But Alexander never becomes Hamlet and his mother never truly becomes the deluded Gertrude. Instead, Alexander withstands his father's appearance, and his mother fights for her own escape. Through the semi-occult figure of Grandmother Helena's former lover...
...hottest Hollywood directors know how to make thrillers, comedies, love stories, even the arrant musical. But few have chosen to dramatize what they have learned best: the secrets of power. These are the film industry's true guilty pleasures-the devilish legerdemain of dealmaking, the bending of a hundred egos to a common purpose, the fine art of humiliating an old friend-and every movie Machiavelli has his own closetful...
...During that extra time, Columbia's instruments monitored a surprise eruption of a huge solar flare, a fiery burst of hot gases from the sun's surface. Such plumes often reach thousands of miles into space and give off a flood of charged particles that can play devilish tricks on spacecraft. In 1979, Skylab, NASA'S abandoned space workshop, came crashing prematurely to earth after its orbit was disturbed by solar activity...
...devilish dilemma is whether to switch policy, and by how much. Most economists believe that the Government should immediately attack the towering deficits that threaten to keep interest rates high. Two possible strategies: scaling back the enormous increase in defense spending now planned or delaying, reducing or even canceling the further 10% cut in income tax rates scheduled for July 1983. On Capitol Hill, Congressmen are advancing various plans to reduce spending-even including the previously unthinkable step of freezing cost of living increases due next year in Social Security benefits-and to raise more tax revenues...