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What is America's biggest regional repertory company, employing as many as 63 actors to mount a dozen productions for a total of 676 performances a year? What company features three spaces ranging from a stripped-down, experimental "black box" and a handsome conventional auditorium to a 1,173-seat outdoor Elizabethan playhouse, closely modeled on the Fortune Theater built in London in 1600? What company annually attracts more than 300,000 playgoers, 90% of them from more than 150 miles away? What company won a 1983 Tony Award and drew the American Theater Critics Association convention to view...
...could be done to ensure the safety of transfusions. Among the experts' conclusions: that patients facing surgery should, whenever possible, prepare by making autologous donations -- stockpiling their own blood for use when they need it. "If you have an operation scheduled," says the panel chairman, Dr. Thomas Chalmers of Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, "it's much better to get your own blood...
...only needs to take Bok's own words and apply them to Harvard instead of to the nation as a whole. "If we do not take this step and the violence continues to mount in South Africa," says Bok's letter to Congress, "will we be able to say that we did everything possible to forestall further loss of life...
...Felix I (269-74) "is one of the obscurest Popes, even his dates being conjectural." Then there was Pope Joan, whose entire existence is conjectural. Kelly dutifully traces the oftretold legend of a disguised woman Pope (who was found out when she gave birth while trying to mount a horse) to a 13th century work called the Universal Chronicle of Metz. The only Pope who never existed even in legend was John XX, whose nonexistence apparently occurred because John XXI (1276-77) was mistaken about the number of his predecessors. John was a bookish type who ordered a special cell...
...director would probably like you to think that the State Building plays a role in this film similar to that played by Mount Rushmore in Hitchcock's North by Northwest or the Royal Albert Hall in The Man Who Knew Too Much. If not up to that highest caliber of architectural film settings, the glass dome does provide a nice backdrop for the flying bullets, which shatter the ubiquitous glass windows, the bodies, which fall down escalators and the adventurous heros, who scall the walls of the building with mountain-climbing gear galore...