Word: hares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Great performances have been easier to find than great plays on Broadway this season. Michael Gambon, making his U.S. stage debut last fall, stormed impressively through Skylight, a lesser work by David Hare. Antony Sher's luminous portrayal of English painter Stanley Spencer makes Pam Gems' Stanley look better than it probably is. Christopher Plummer is currently having a high old time impersonating the boozing thespian John Barrymore, though the vehicle, Barrymore, is little more than a facile stand-up monologue...
...this is one industry, and one company, that glows white hot with anger between its labor and management. United, Northwest, USAir, TWA and Continental are lined up with labor negotiations like so many jets waiting to take off from O'Hare. Does this mean a year of strikes? Not necessarily, but the situation at American is a sort of wind sock for the industry...
...Wild Hare," the first cartoon to star Bugs Bunny, shows the rabbit's evolution. Even in this earliest specimen, though, the style and substance of the Bugs and Elmer cartoons are clearly defined: Bugs takes to cross dressing to fool the wily hunter. "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" was made years later, but is essentially the same cartoon with added finesse. In this update, despite Daffy's attempts to stop Bugs' beguiling banter, Elmer's gun keeps displacing Daffy's break from his head...
...shorts also jauntily ignore the rules of physics. In "High Diving Hare," Bugs Bunny remains suspended on a floating platform in mid-air. He turns to the viewer and says, "I know this defies the law of gravity, but you see, I never studied law." This tongue-in-cheek, yet outrageous approach creates a comedy so simple and rich that no child or adult should be able to withhold a smile...
...council is employing the hare proportional voting scheme. Proportional representation allows citizens to rank their choice of candidates and then redistributes votes from the last place candidate, who is mathematically eliminated from the race, to the voter's next-preferred choice...