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...BEST THING ABOUT TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD is its subject. Christopher Hampton's 1982 play focuses on leading German literary emigres who settled in the film capital in the '30s and '40s, namely Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann and his brother Heinrich (along with Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon von Horvath, who never really made it to America but serves as fictionalized narrator). Yet an impressive cast -- Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Sinead Cusack -- cannot lift this PBS American Playhouse adaptation much above elegant name dropping. Despite snatches of Ragtime-esque fantasy and an ending that pays homage to Sunset Boulevard, the drama...
...reason specified CORNELL location MOREHOUSE/GEORGIA TECH Ronald McNair NASA science program NYU free ride; better recruitment SWARTHMORE scholarship; poor recruitment UVA free ride YALE (6) free ride (ROTC); drama program; location NORTHWESTERN full athletic scholarship DREW free ride STANFORD (5) better aid packages; better engineering MIT (3) better engineering HAMPTON historically Black college EMORY (2) better aid packages BRYN MAWR no reason specified DUKE (4) free rides; better aid package GEORGIA TECH free ride USC school of film and cinema NOTRE DAME full 4-year scholarship RUTGERS better aid package BROWN (2) medical program; better aid package TEXAS...
...indulging in some self-serving threat inflation, but there is little evidence that the SVR is pulling back. FBI sources, for example, say that this year alone Russian agents have tried to recruit several U.S. citizens as spies, including a sailor based at the U.S. Navy's giant Hampton Roads facility in Norfolk, Va. Wayne Gilbert, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, complains of a continuing influx of Russian agents disguised as businessmen and tourists. In the Belgian episode, SVR spies had targeted a sensitive nato battlefield communications system. Elsewhere in Europe, the Russians have shown interest in everything from electronic...
...From Lionel Hampton: eight neckties valued...
Jane Nichols' adaptation of Christopher Hampton's highly acclaimed Dangerous Liaisons is a modest attempt to bring a certain degree of finesse to a highly complex storyline. This play deals adeptly with deceit, betrayal, love and above all, control...