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...American-born priest ever to become a Ruthenian prelate, Elko was in many respects a typical U.S. bishop: a blunt, tough, brick-and-mortar administrator who built 93 new churches and schools for his diocese. Nonetheless, his no-nonsense ways managed to offend both liberals and conservatives in his far-flung...
...before, the commission reaffirmed its approval of the ITT-ABC get-together. In so doing, the FCC rejected the Antitrust Division's contentions that the merger might (1) restrain competition, (2) subject ABC's public affairs programming to unusual pressures from ITT's far-flung business interests, and (3) enable ITT to drain the network of capital that otherwise might go into broadcasting. Such fears, concluded the commission majority, "are too speculative or slight to weigh heavily in the balance...
Mayer's production brings together a far-flung assortment of talents, and makes of them a miraculous whole. Plebeians is not an instructive play in the ordinary sense. It is no lecture, but achieves its purpose by employing the audience as an equal partner, rising and falling with the central character, by making the stage what it is -- a stage -- and by having its cast stretch out, physically as well as metaphorically, into the audience. The blocking, which capitalizes on what are usually limitations in Agassiz Theatre, combines realism with esthetic pleasure, and modulates in perfect coordination with the play...
...will go on some sort of bender before the end ,(it's a beauty when it comes), but even before then Gabin and Belmondo have bounced their personalities off each other to fine effect. At one points the latently alcoholic Gabin and the actively drunk Belmondo compare the far-flung fantasies each has known while drunk. In doing so, they display both a humor and quiet intensity that rises from more than what they actually do or say. They ("the nobility of drunkards") share an understanding the audience is also allowed to comprehend...
Heading up 7,800 worthwhile employees, Progetti's General Manager Franco Salimbeni, 39, shuttles constantly between far-flung sites to keep things moving. "That way I know what the problems are before they are reported to me," he explains...