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...American Repertory Theater (ART) will embark tonight on a 10-week tour of Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the Middle East-perhaps the most extensive trip ever for an American theater company...
...refuses to say whether the election marks "twilight or dawn, an era ending or an era beginning. "He suggests that the ultimate significance of 1980 remains in the hands of Ronald Reagan and his Republican coat tail-riders, who can now either cement their tenuous 1980 coalition or embark on another "wrong turning" that could, as in the 1960s, "bring us to convulsion in the streets. "This is perhaps the one unfortunate thing about America in Search of Itself. More than any of the previous Making of the President installments. White writes here of long-term political trends...
...main character in I Ought to be in Pictures is once again the tough kid with a heart of gold--a more mature version of The Goodbye Girl's Quinn Cummings. Nineteen-year-old Libby Tucker (Dinah Manoff) decides to embark on an odyssey from Brooklyn to California, to find her screenwriter father who abandoned her 16 years earlier. She hopes to use his help to start--surprise, surprise--a career in show business. But Herb, her father, is not the successful writer she had expected and the road to riches is difficult. This opening sequence adequately conveys the disillusionment...
INTERPRETATIONS COME quickly and thickly in the wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
...establish more realistic prices for the seven key commodities. In 1977, when Sadat tried to cut back the subsidies, bloody food riots broke out around the country. Nonetheless, the new government will try to tackle the problem again. Economics Minister Meguid says that the state is planning to embark on a food stamp program early next year that will continue subsidies for the poor and middle class but force the rich to pay the full price. Mubarak also said last week that he plans to direct al infitah toward more productive investment and away from the costly consumption of imported...