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...must order an F/A-18 financial review and report back on whether the Navy has acted lawfully, or it will refuse to approve more spending for the plane. Weinberger, in a three-paragraph reply, promised to do both. Democrats on the Hill are searching for big-ticket items to knock out of the defense budget. The buzzing about the Hornet may be music to their ears...
Perhaps as incendiary an example of this revisionism as Brustein has ever offered is the A.R.T.'s current Three Sisters, a production by Rumanian Director Andrei Serban that transforms the customarily lugubrious Chekhov portrait of a doomed family into a knock about farce. Actors pout like children on a stage strewn with Producer toys. Earnest philosophizing about suffering and social evolution is played as vapid bourgeois chitchat. The fondest wish of the Prozorov sisters - to return to the gaiety of Moscow - is voiced as a giggling endearment to a baby. Yet the essence of the play is conveyed with...
...angst of being a rookie again. He had been recruited by the Eastman Philharmonia to read selected passages from the speeches of Martin Luther King to a new score written with Stargell in mind by Composer Joseph Schwantner, 39. "When you play Carnegie Hall, the knees tend to knock," said Stargell. But last week he gave a great performance in a career marked by great performances. For the old ballplayer, his debut was one from the heart. "Once, I remember we went to a drive-in movie, and the blacks had to sit in the back on benches with...
...trade barriers are clearly no answer to the industry's woes. But as the vital signs of a recovering economy at long last begin to work their way through business in the months ahead, steelmen need at all costs to avoid the sort of calamitous strike that would knock their companies flat as well as send imports leaping. Only after the industry has struggled back to profitability can it have any hope of solving its deeply rooted long-range problems. For now, at least, the challenge facing Big Steel is measured in months, not years...
...knew I'd get there this year," Mark Fusco said after the game. "But, I will be heartsick if I'm the one to knock Olson off the list because he can't play...