Word: haling
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...Ancell, chairman of the board, emeritus, of Ethan Allen Inc.; Donald Hewitt, executive producer of "60 Minutes"; architect Philip Johnson; former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Norman Leventhal Beacon Companies; writer and novelist. Cynthia Ozick; and Simone Veil, former president of the European Parliamentary Assembly; and Clara McBride Hale, a New York City resident who has spearheaded programs for ill and drug-addicted children...
...contra representatives into signing agreements that established an immediate cease-fire and committed the contras to a total demobilization by June 10. But those agreements may prove as misleading as the ceremony in Yamales, where only wounded or ailing contras turned over their weaponry. Perhaps 12,000 of their hale colleagues slipped back into Nicaragua after Chamorro's upset electoral victory on Feb. 25. Top contra commanders, most of whom were not on hand last week to sign the cease- fire agreement, maintain that they will not order their troops to lay down weapons until the 70,000 members...
...direction, on the whole, is good. The actors give focused, energetic performances. Worthy of mention are Suzanne Rose as an agressive talk-show hostess, China Forbes as the distasteful Duchess and Steve Robinson as the neurotic March Hare. Jon Blackstone and Tom Hale were both charming as Tweedledee and Tweedledum...
...pace quickens in the second act, which is saved by faster scenes and more entertaining song and dance. The White Knight (Tom Hale) does a rap to cheer Alice while the other actors dance. The final ensemble number, a "lobster dance" set to Beethoven, is funny and very original. The act drags only during a mainly unintelligible "Jabberwocky Battle," which leaves the audience guessing at its multi-lingual signifigance...
Some economists believe the slack period will be short-lived and will be followed by renewed growth, a scenario that has them searching for metaphors. David Hale, chief economist of Chicago's Kemper Financial Services, characterizes the slowdown as an "output pause." Geoffrey Moore, an economics professor at Columbia University, talks of a "stutter step." Economist Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor, says that by late 1990 the slowdown may be followed by a period of "economic refreshment...