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...space explorers measure distance in light-years, but their creator employs more conventional units for time. The sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 took place only nine years later, in 2010. The latest adventure of the still ( youthful Heywood Floyd and his cybernetic companion, HAL the computer, occurs 51 years further on. As astronomers know, 2061 is the year Halley's comet is next scheduled to enter the inner solar system, providing a sequel of its own. Despite a soft landing on that astral body, the reappearance of the celebrated black monoliths of superintelligence, and references to voicegrams, audiomail...
...proposal for federal insurance to cover long- term at-home or nursing-home care. While other lobbies are often content with dumping a blizzard of preprinted postcards on Capitol Hill, AARP members tend to write their own letters. "AARP is the equivalent of an 800-lb. gorilla," says Congressman Hal Daub, a Republican on the Social Security subcommittee...
...play's prickly virtues are recaptured in a spare staging by Director Arvin Brown at New Haven, Conn.'s, Long Wharf Theater. Hal Holbrook stars in the role Wilder sometimes enacted himself, as the Stage Manager or narrator of this funny valentine to the squandered joys of everyday life. Scoffing, moments after he enters, at those who feel a need for scenery, Holbrook commands the lowering of a couple of trellises halfheartedly entwined with flowers; an instant later, they are hauled back up out of sight. From then on, the actors proceed without props or sets save for a couple...
Last Dec. 29, when she turned 40 and was feeling reasonably miserable about it, she sat down for a series of weekend listening sessions with Producer Hal Willner in Cambridge, Mass., at the "American dream house with a white picket fence," where she lived alone. "We listened to about 400 songs," Willner recalls. "She would wander around, listening all the time. Each weekend we would find ten songs we would want to record." They also found a common thread in all the material. "There are a lot of songs about being alienated, about being a stranger," Faithfull says...
From these exercises, scraps of long-forgotten incidents start to emerge from the thickets of memory: eating tomatoes and then being screamed at by a shrewish mother; a father's leaving home; an overheard neighbors' conversation about a brutal father; being rejected by schoolmates. Hal (all patients' names . in this article are fictitious) is responding quickly to Bergman's constant probing and badgering. "It's like a crash course in therapy -- the emotions come up so quickly," he says. "At the same time, you know you're safe because it's only a play...