Word: hals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Slow Day in the Park" is less of a slow day and more of a mildly slow twenty minutes during which we en-counter Hal (Kris Kobach) and Norman (Will Provost), two men sitting, of all places, in a park. Norman, sporting a Mets hat, turns to Hal, sporting tacky Humphrey Bogart-wear, and whines in diluted Brooklynese, "You were eyein...
...retorts Hal, "you were eyeing me." And so it goes for the next nineteen minutes, as we learn that both Hal and Norman actually know that each is eyein' the other. Soon, however, the farce of spying spies attempts to be serious. Norman asks Hal, "How's your wife?" and we are then to assume that these two men know each other on more than just a superficial level...
Unlike, say, Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, Stricklyn attempts to re-create a face, voice and manner that many of his spectators vividly remember. His Williams turns out to be less a physical reincarnation than a psychological interpretation, and on that level it engrossingly succeeds. From the start, Williams' art was personal, almost claustrophobic in its griefs and grudges; yet his chosen literary form, the drama, required the constant presence of others to act and direct and design his plays, above all to receive them. Stricklyn gives poignant life to Williams' yearning for the world to look...
Second thoughts seem to have been written into his contract: Jackson is entitled to buy his way out of baseball and into football next July. "But I'm having too much fun for second thoughts," he says. "George Brett, Willie Wilson and Hal McRae rag me all day long." Since the football games have begun, he has been following the fortunes of contemporaries like the Los Angeles Raiders' naval attache Napoleon McCallum. But he feels no pangs. "I'm glad it's over and sad it's finished," Jackson says with a soft laugh...
...shift in travel plans. The likeliest victims are financially struggling Pan Am and TWA, which depend on transatlantic routes for much of their revenue. Eastern Airlines has put on hold the start-up of a new route from Miami to Madrid. The reason: lack of business. Says Hal Rosenbluth, president of a Philadelphia travel agency: "I think the public tends to perceive the U.S. flag carriers as targets." The airlines most immune to the slump are national carriers of northern European countries, which include the Netherlands' KLM, West Germany's Lufthansa and Belgium's Sabena. Israel's El Al, which...