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...program Clinton has proposed, and that PBHA had wisely joined, is not volunteerism in the manner of most PBHA programs, in that students will be paid to tutor. But the staff must not mire itself in semantics when we have the opportunity to teach young Bostonians to read and thereby face a brighter future...
Mitsubishi has come up with a novel approach to try to rise above a mire of unresolved sexual-harassment cases. The Japanese automaker has quietly circulated word among U.S. public relations firms that it is searching for a new head of p.r.--with important damage-control prerequisites. The candidate must: be a woman; reside in the assembly-plant town of Normal, Illinois, where the scandal broke; and pass an interview with the plant's Japanese manager. Despite a salary said to be near $200,000 and a requirement of only five years' experience, there have been no takers. Meanwhile...
...argued rather persuasively that such descriptions are now unconscionable, that fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...
...were only this simple. Wellman's script is a minefield of abstractions, a barrage of heavy-handed symbolism and non-linear (dis) connections. And where else to witness this fragmented and worn schema of juxtapositions than a junkyard? The mire is realized in James Murdoch's artfully ramshackle set. Littered with couches, barrels, tires and a clothesline, the audience is strewn around the playing space, indistinguishable from the wreckage...
INVESTIGATIONS: The Man in the Mire...