Word: flawed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ineffectual. In David Storey's Home (1970), John Osborne's West of Suez (1971) and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1975) and in the films The Heiress (1950) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), Richardson found his ideal role: as the haughty burgher whose tragic flaw lies in realizing too late that he is not quite a tragic figure. Though he never played Lear, the Shakespearean role that might have been written for him, Richardson found that doddering majesty as the politician in Storey's Early Days (1980). Wily but too innocent, flirting with senility, raging...
Aside from this flaw, though, the Boston Ballet has come a long way from its previous performances and reputation. Carmina Burana is for anyone who wants to be dazzled and energized...
...Kevin White had run again, unsavory reputation and all, corruption might have been the loudest campaign refrain. But White stepped down, and the other primary candidates, anxious not to alienate his supporters, rarely mentioned this central flaw of city government. The patronage machinery may be one of the biggest prizes of the contest. But the press follows along. No one asks what is future of machine politics--and why so few of the candidates feel the need to run against it. Boston is losing the chance to know itself...
...reform was designed to correct a fundamental flaw in the system: the Government had set no limit on what it would pay for hospital care. "The incentive was perverse," explains Carolyne Davis, head of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare. "The more hospitals spent, the more we paid." The new regulations place a ceiling on the amount a hospital receives for treating each ailment. Upon admission, Medicare patients will be assigned to one of 467 newly de fined "diagnosis-related groups," or DRGs, home on the nature of their jeopardizing Each DRG carries a specific rate of reimbursement...
...Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset was less awed by her part, as the consul's exwife, than by her boss. "The thing that makes one so frightened is that one has such a great desire to please him," she says, recalling her first meeting with Huston. "I felt like I had three or four...