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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hope that this is the reason Kilty allowed a ten-year-old child to play the role of Moth. Don Armado's precocious page. As Moth is a role comparable to Puck in A Midsummer's Night's Dream, it is not something one farms out to a tyro. Appearing in the same scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Love's Labor Pains | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

Today's Fresh troops are again in Chad a baked-dry place they might never have had to visit if not for some officer's dream of that now empty would "glory" in a distant land. The Conquest of the Sahura, besides just recounting adventures that really happened and the exotic world where they took place, offers insights into the spirit that inspired colonialism and hint of how these long-ago events influenced the intervening years...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Made-for-TV Colonialism | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...know." LaBelle warned of the need for sacrifice: "If we let our egos stay behind and let our pocketbooks stay empty for a while and just go do things for feeling and spirit and causes, I think the Apollo will survive." Meanwhile, for that night, the dream and the memory and the music drowned out the murmurs of caution. And one onlooker who had been there for all the glory times judged this perhaps the grandest. Said Francis ("Doll") Thomas, 91, an electrician at the theater since 1933: "This is about the happiest day of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Uptown Saturday Night: The Apollo Theater | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...sell Metromedia's Boston outlet, WCVB-TV, to the Hearst Corp. for $450 million. Murdoch and Davis will end up with six stations that reach one out of every / five U.S. households, thus providing a potent market for Fox movies and programs. Together, the two men harbor an ambitious dream: to become major players in American television and develop their holdings into what amounts to a "fourth network." Alone, Murdoch may have an even grander plan: to build a global television empire linking Europe, America and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: America's Newest Video Baron | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...those who dream of becoming literary titans, the terror of the comp awaits. Although many are told that "comp" is short for "Competence." Anyone who has ever comped can give you a number of other possible origins for the word, including "complete nervous breakdown," or "compulsory self-degradation...

Author: By Benjamini N. Smith, | Title: Broken Dreams | 5/17/1985 | See Source »

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