Word: leaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gilbert and Sullivan's last great collaborative effort completely from scratch, as if she had never seen or heard about its traditional staging. No director of Gilbert and Sullivan, to this longtime fan's recollection, has ever quite ignored the D'Oyly Carte orthodoxy the way Brown has. Wilford Leach, in his successful Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance updated G & S conventions in many ways and even overthrew them at times, but there was never a moment when he wasn't aware of all the Pirates that preceded...
...agents rely mostly on shoe leather and the patient combing of stacks of returns, which may at times yield a few unexpectedly bright needles. Says Marilyn Leach, 30, an IRS auditor of small businesses in the Carson, Calif., area: "Sometimes you get there and the person sees you and immediately says, 'I didn't report $100,000 in income last year.' That's a real easy audit...
Some congressional critics are more than satisfied by the State Department report. Says Congressman Jim Leach, Republican from Iowa: "The previous statements on the subject were sufficient to indict but not to convict. On the basis of the new report, I think any jury would convict...
...because of the Administration's frequent overstatements. Says Gregory A. Flynn, of the Paris-based Atlantic Institute for International Affairs: "What happened with that [purported Nicaraguan guerrilla in El Salvador] brought up to Washington is bound to affect the world's interpretation of this latest report." Concedes Leach: "The U.S. is not too credible any more in the eyes of some [foreign] governments. They think we suffer from an anti-Soviet paranoia...
...company has been trying for several hours to shoot a scene featuring the song Hail, Poetry ("For what, we ask, is life/ Without a touch of poetry in it?"). Director Leach sees the scene as a tableau, a Victorian postcard. He has shot it before, but the results seemed to him "like a bunch of people standing in a field." Shooting it again is costing money, and Universal Pictures has begun prodding Papp about costs; the production, which is scheduled for release later this year, was budgeted at $9 million and now seems likely to come in at about...