Word: edens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shakespeare, England was a sceptered isle, another Eden, a blessed plot peopled by "such dear souls." For Alan Ayckbourn, writing nearly 400 years later, it is a dirty, overcrowded cabin cruiser, inhabited by a contentious crew of incompetents who could not navigate a bathtub, let alone the meandering river he provides them in Way Upstream. But, Ayckbourn being Ayckbourn, his newest play, which received its American premiere at Houston's Alley Theater last week, is often also extremely funny, a social allegory that amuses before it frightens...
...serpents, however, have begun to crawl into northern California's economic Garden of Eden. Though renowned for their liberal personnel policies, some Silicon Valley employers are under attack for their treatment of hourly production workers. Assembling circuit boards or inspecting chips is a tedious dead-end job that has attracted thousands of Mexicans, Filipinos and Vietnamese immigrants. Many earn wages of less than $5 an hour, low by industry standards...
...listen to the two presidents, the new arrangement is the best of all possible non-unions. Boasted Futter: "The agreement reached today is a tremendous triumph for Barnard College." Said Sovern: "I don't see any snakes in this Eden." In the short term, both appeared to be right. For seven years, under contract, the two institutions will continue to cross-register courses and share facilities. (Barnard's library has 150,000 volumes, Columbia University's 5 million.) Barnard will regain control over its own faculty (tenure will be decided by a committee of two Barnard...
BORN. To Jane Seymour, 30, British-born actress of stage (Amadeus), screen (Somewhere in Time) and television (East of Eden), and David Flynn, 32, her business manager: her first child, his second; in Los Angeles. Name: Katharine Jane. Weight...
...depict a world less evil than crazy and people afflicted less by self-interest than by tunnel vision. But even his most pointed observations are, at bottom, funny. When he satirizes network news in an anecdote showing how television "covered" the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden Eden, it is with the lightest of touches. Baker's ability to portray the less palatable sides of American life while keeping readers chuckling at his insights has made him America's funniest social critic; it also makes the Almanac splendid reading...