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...Galloway's Joan is casually approachable in precisely this way. What Galloway does not project is any hint of spirituality or vulnerability. Perhaps the din of forensic rhetoric that dominates this production prevents her from hearing any inner voices. Tom Kneebone makes of the Dauphin a mixture of skittish cravenness and caustic venom, while William Needles' inquisitor is magisterially forbidding. The rest of the cast act like shrill contenders in a debating contest, but that may stem in part from George Bernard Shaw the street-corner agitator...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recommended, but barely enforced, a maximum of 90 decibels-the sound of a heavy truck-throughout an eight-hour workday. OSHA wants to keep to that level. The Environmental Protection Agency and the labor unions want the limit reduced to 85, the din of a busy street. Many industries are strongly opposed to such regulation and claim it would be ruinous. The noise level now registers about 105 decibels next to the looms in a textile mill, and 115 close to an automobile factory's high-speed metal presses. An OSHA study...
...however, that no one ever did. A great part of its huge, shambling appeal is that The Wind and the Lion is made not in reverence for old movies but rather from a romantic distortion of them. Everything is outsized, scaled even larger than the heroics in Gunga Din or Beau Geste: soldiers are still braver, sheiks more dashing, the heroine more spiritual and loving...
Died. George Stevens, 70, American film director, of an apparent heart attack; in Lancaster, Calif. Stevens confected a series of comedies and melodramas in the 1930s, among them Swing Time, A Damsel in Distress and Gunga Din. His bitter wartime experiences (filming the scenes of Dachau death camp used at the Nuremberg trials) deepened his vision. Stevens' masterworks, Shane, Giant and A Place in the Sun, have become classic incarnations of American legend...
...Savoy. At 5:13 a.m., shortly before sunrise, two short bursts of automatic weapons fire signaled the Israeli attack. A few moments of quiet passed; then the assault troops opened fire on the hotel from all directions. The sound of grenades and mortars exploding was almost lost in the din of small arms and heavy machine guns as Israelis and terrorists exchanged fire...