Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC by Edmond Rostand...
...cello to play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away a heavenly three hours...
...opening production had a Brobdingnagian minstrel show banked high on the mammoth stage, with scenery and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones, resident designer. Mr. Jones had also prepared a set for the battle of Fort McHenry where, 'mid Roxy's red glare, Francis Scott Key composed the national anthem...
...correct the trade imbalance through protectionist import restrictions; and 3) concentrate on creating jobs. Jean Poperen, the party's deputy leader, last month charged that the government was losing its "popular support" and called for a return to the "class struggle" as the Socialists' central theme. Edmond Maire, leader of the Socialist-dominated Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, has repeatedly criticized the government for failing to consult the unions before making unpopular economic decisions...
Time present and time past. Both are vividly evoked in diametrically opposed plays now running in New York City theaters. David Mamet's Edmond gazes hypnotically into the bubbling cauldron of the modern urban inferno. All egos are rampant, all values degraded, all souls for sale, all hope abandoned. Hell on the installment plan...