Word: foraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work both ways, with regional theaters that have developed promising productions often joining forces with Manhattan institutions or producers. That is the case with two current off-Broadway delights: a lively feminist interpretation of the British social-class comedy Educating Rita by Chicago's Steppenwolf, the ensemble's sixth foray into Manhattan in the past five seasons; and a bewitchingly surreal satire with songs, Three Postcards, the second offering this season originated by California's South Coast Repertory, which, despite its setting in conservative Orange County, south of Los Angeles, specializes in avant- garde premieres...
...that summit, as Hyland relates in his new book Mortal Rivals (Random House; $19.95), that the Soviets offered the Americans a special safe for their secret papers, assuring the visitors it was a reliable model. The Americans for once said no. But some of the veterans of that diplomatic foray now wonder if the offer, such an apparent snare, was not really a kind of high-level gesture of hospitality. Soviets spy on Soviets more than on Americans. And since the Soviets wanted the meeting to be a success, the top apparatchiks may have been trying to shield their visitors...
...Broadcasting Co., the most ambitious effort yet to create a full-fledged fourth network. Financed by Australian-born Press Baron Rupert Murdoch (who in 1985 added 20th Century-Fox studios and the Metromedia chain of independent TV stations to his worldwide media holdings), Fox made its first foray into national programming in October with The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Though Rivers' ratings in the battle against Johnny Carson have been disappointing, her determined parent company is now set to challenge the networks on the main stage. Next Sunday Fox will introduce its first two prime-time series...
...Dukakis offers his own stewardship of a surging state economy that has transformed Massachusetts from industrial stagnation to New Age affluence. Dukakis has been refining this message of economic regeneration since he began nurturing dreams of the Oval Office after his landslide re-election victory last November. An initial foray into Iowa drew mixed reviews. But Dukakis, generally far more impressive in small groups than on a podium, gave a relaxed and polished performance at the New Hampshire state Democratic dinner early this month. His speech combined a vision of an entrepreneurial yet compassionate Democratic Party, pointed references to local...
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze last week became the first top Soviet diplomat to visit Thailand, Australia and Indonesia in 25 years. The foray was another step in Mikhail Gorbachev's policy, announced last July in Vladivostok, of making the Soviet Union a major political and economic force in the Pacific...