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...teased him about his funny hat. Fuller drew a sketch of the white cap that Brobant had worn then, and the old Frenchman's eyes lit up in recognition. Shouting and laughing, the two men bear-hugged each other, overjoyed at finding a living connection to that distant...
Such figures as East German Playwright Heiner Müller, Argentine Film Maker Edgardo Cozarinsky and American Composer Philip Glass are contributing their talents. The plot, if it may be called that, embraces history, from mythological Greece to the distant future, and has as its centerpiece the violent, haunting images of the American Civil War. For the mastermind of it all, Texas-born Robert Wilson, 42, it is the boldest venture yet in an avant-garde theatrical career that has specialized in audacity. It is the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, a multimillion-dollar...
...news directors apparently have a different approach to those distant catastrophies in weird-sounding places. The standing commandment for this amorphous category is "just tell me the main stuff and don't bother with the particulars...
...early Sunday morning, barely flickering. In a contest limited to Democrats who had first voted in a primary for congressional and state offices on Saturday and then gave up their evening to attend the caucuses, Walter Mondale was leading Hart by 2-1, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson a distant third. Mondale claimed "a very strong victory" and said "it appears we have won 50% of the delegates, perhaps a few more." Texas eventually will send 200 delegates to the Democratic convention, the third largest bloc from any state, and even before it voted the former Vice President...
...distant thundering explosions are vaguely reminiscent of the noise that kept residents on edge two years ago as British troops advanced across the barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...