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...spectators can clear their minds of the hoopla about the record $37 million advance sales, the $10 million production cost, the $100 top ticket price, the ethnic controversies over stereotypes and casting, and the residual political furor over the Vietnam War -- in other words, of all the things that make Miss Saigon an event rather than simply an entertainment -- they may find that the musical that opened on Broadway last week is a cracking good show. It blends a love story and a spectacle with tragic social commentary about what the West symbolizes to the Third World, which...
...when the hoopla subsides, many families will be left to cope with a host of problems that may catch them by surprise. "Reunion is much more stressful than departure," cautions Meg Falk, deputy director of the Navy's family- support program. Typically, the returning troops will career from euphoria to a baffled recognition that time has not stood still in their absence: children have grown, spouses have become more independent. It's difficult to adjust. "We encourage them to be an honored guest in the home for a while rather than come charging in to take over," says Marine Chaplain...
...latest venture, Disney is orchestrating its usual mix of hoopla and down-home family fun. Euro Disneyland will feature an amusement park with 29 attractions, and six hotels with 5,200 rooms designed by such top architects as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. There will also be a 138-acre Davy Crockett campground and an 18-hole golf course, not to mention 150,000 trees sprinkled over the Disneyscape. Construction is more than halfway along. Among the park's highlights: a 60-ft.-high Swiss Family Tree House and Disney's trademark Big Thunder Mountain, a roller-coaster ride...
Despite the hoopla around the possibility of a Gates appointment, some scholars are skeptical about Harvard's overall strategy for Afro-Am. Charshee Lawrence-McIntyre, a professor of English at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, says she questions the way Harvard and the nation's other top schools try to build their departments by landing one big name professor...
Almost lost amid the hoopla was a meeting held on the same day in New York City between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. After five hours of discussion, capping more than 15 years of negotiation, the superpowers agreed "in principle" to reduce their conventional arms in Europe to the same level. Never before in history have two sides willingly agreed to destroy so many weapons...