Word: lied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a half hour of real nerves," Harvard heavyweight Mark Schoeffel said. "But then you can lie down and sleep some...
...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are America's foremost symbols of boyhood optimism, of romantic dreaming at the age when all life's options lie open. Bernard Sabath's The Boys in Autumn imagines those Mark Twain characters as disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...
What makes the play memorable, though, is the virtuoso acting of Ben Evett as Ariel and Kerrick Johnson as Caliban, the sorceror Prospero's two slaves. Ariel and Caliban are pivotal figures, representing the opposing realms of Air and Earth that lie at the heart of Shakespeare's thematic dilemma. And in this production, Evett and Johnson can hardly do wrong, expertly treading the line between man and spirit that make these two of Shakespeare's more difficult roles...
More travails lie ahead. Last week a subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee began to hold hearings on the conduct of accounting firms. Democratic Representative Doug Barnard Jr. of Georgia, chairman of a subcommittee of the House Government Operations Committee, has gone a step further. He lambasted a variety of federal regulators by letter for their performance in overseeing accountants responsible for auditing the books of U.S. banks and thrift institutions. Admits Philip Chenok, president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the profession's self- regulating watchdog: "These are very difficult times...
...Diego that unsuccessfully sought status as a minority vendor. "He is the last person in the world to talk about front companies," said Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell of Baltimore, author of one federal set-aside program. Pendleton rejects the charge that the firm was a shell operation as "a lie...