Word: haring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shocking all right, but writer and first-time director David Hare lets loose not just the beginnings of a gripping psychological thriller but also a chorus of mysteries, passions, and disturbed and disturbing emotions...
With Wetherby, David Hare, a reknowned playwright in England, an experienced stage director of his own works, and author of Plenty, has entered the realm of movies with ease: his direction always illuminates his script. Never slow, the screenplay delivers equal amounts of disdain and understanding for the overexposed minds of Hare's compatriots. Hare's jabs, though, are the most fun, as they make for thrilling moments of silly bickering and academic idiocy--one invited dinner guest keeps insisting "Define your terms!" His characters are appealing--when they aren't incensed suicides--no matter how Hare intends otherwise. Some...
Working under the city's Hare system of proportional voting--which was designed by a 19th-century English lawyer to reflect the views of minority groups--municipal authorities will take only the 2899 ballots which were cast for Russell and determine the next-best finisher...
...Pravda is not merely lamenting the newspapers that are but pining for newspapers that might be. The play is not foremost a preachment, however, but a superb high-energy entertainment, with a cast of 33, lavishly detailed sets, throbbing music and an urgent, propulsive style set by Co-Author Hare, who directed. It recalls the morally assertive best of warmhearted Broadway satires like The Solid Gold Cadillac in every regard save one: Pravda does not and, given its bitter convictions, could not have a happy ending...
Thousands of people traveling on business or to weddings or graduations were idled, and airports around the U.S. were in chaos. "It's a zoo out here," said a policeman at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last Friday morning. The Baltimore Orioles baseball team was among those stranded at O'Hare Thursday night. At La Guardia Airport in New York City, United tried to persuade other airlines to honor its passengers' tickets, but that did not always work. American Airlines refused to honor the United ticket held by Larry Scweber of Portland, Me. He wanted to go to Tulsa...