Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...productions viewed deliver at least the raucous pleasures of the original. The version that has been playing in Washington since July has more elaborate lighting and staging effects than one of those that are moving from city to city every week or two, but the differences are minor. The celebrated catlike movements look more Vegas-like now. In both casts, only the dancers playing the secondary role of Alonzo (Ken Nagy in Washington, Stephen Moore touring) achieve the cool detachment of another species. The singing, although always vibrant, is uneven. In the peripatetic cast Andy Spangler glows as the Elvis...
After putting in a standard 40-hour week, a growing number of workers in -- let's say, Country X -- labor at second and even third jobs. Those who cannot find regular full-time employment take whatever part-time or temporary jobs they can get. Minor illnesses or family troubles are not allowed to interfere with work; absenteeism has dropped to the lowest levels since the early 1970s. Employees regularly say they would prefer still longer hours and higher incomes to more leisure and less pay. This is not just idle talk; money-losing companies sometimes persuade their workers to sacrifice...
...testing anyone seeking a high-value individual life policy. But those measures are less sweeping than they seem: some 85% of U.S. insurance policies are provided through group plans, which are usually unaffected by the testing dictum. Even where tests have been applied, the results so far have been minor. Transamerica received 168,000 insurance applications between January 1986 and June of this year, and rejected only 82 on the basis of suspected or diagnosed cases of AIDS...
...from Rembrandt Peale's stiff but historically interesting Porthole Portrait of George Washington and Samuel Morse's The Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams...
...Reagan's innate optimism, which remains largely intact despite three major operations since he entered the White House and minor surgery last week to remove a cancerous growth from his nose, could help him fight back. His overall approval rating in polls remains high (53% in the latest Gallup), and Wirthlin predicts it will rebound to 60% or so as attention swings away from the scandal. At the least, the President seems likely to remain a formidable, if diminished, player in the Administration's battles with Congress as he tries to pin down his place in history...