Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hall launched the project with star vehicles: Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice, both of which transferred to Broadway. Now he aims at London only, ranging from the money-harried gloom of Ibsen's The Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek...
...summary, don't waste your money on this bomb. If you really need to see a funny Robin Hood movie there's always that Warner Brothers cartoon with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. At least that one has some genuine laughs...
...must seem odd to the duck and deer populations that Americans have paid more than $255 million this summer for the experience of being prey. In Jurassic Park we had the supreme thrill of being hunted for food by creatures far larger, faster, and -- counting teeth and claws -- better armed than we are. With the raptors closing in, we saw how vulnerable the human body is -- no claws, no exoskeleton, no blinding poison sprays. Take away our guns and high-voltage fences and we are, from a typical predator perspective, tasty mounds of unwrapped meat...
...Britain, John Major's public repute is the lowest for any Prime Minister since the country began polling. Miyazawa, following his government's June 18 collapse, is not only a lame duck but probably a dead one. Francois Mitterrand? His Socialists were routed in parliamentary elections four months ago, reducing the shrewd but tired 76-year-old President to a power-sharing role. Helmut Kohl? Three years after his luminous hour of forging German unification, the Chancellor has the lowest popularity among leading German politicians, according to a recent ZDF television poll. About Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italy's new stopgap...
Ever since she took her job, Janet Reno has suffered from having a lame duck on her team. A noisy, balky one. The head of the FBI, William Sessions, has been discredited in the job and has lost the confidence of his agents, but refuses to leave. Reno has met with Sessions several times in the past few weeks, apparently to show him the door, but without immediate success. And President Clinton, who is the only one who can fire the FBI director, has not done so. As a result, morale among FBI agents has plummeted at a time when...