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...Trevor Nunn has reached the shadowboxing phase, the most perilous in any artist's career. Having staged one of the era's most celebrated productions, Nicholas Nickleby, for his Royal Shakespeare Company, and the acclaimed musical Cats for London's West End and then Broadway, Nunn now must top himself each time out or face critics' speculation that his best work lies behind him. Just that sort of skepticism awaited the opening last week of Nunn's production of Les Miserables, a 3 1/2-hr. musical version of Victor Hugo's novel about revolutionary France. In article after article, London journalists...
...themes and variations, yet it provides hummable pop tunes. Like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, Les Miserables originated as a double-record album. That version, by French authors, was staged at the 4,500-seat Palais des Sports in Paris in 1980. For the R.S.C., Nunn, Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and other writers radically refashioned the text. The result is less French than English in tone and idiom, but that seems apt: Hugo's socialistic portraits of the downtrodden but unconquerable poor, and of the implacable forces of law that try to suppress them on behalf of men of property, could...
...Pentagon this week will announce steps to eliminate leaks, including cutting back on both the number of security clearances and the number of classified documents. "If we don't do these things and do them soon," warns Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, "we're going to have a lot more Walker cases in the future." But no one is suggesting the kind of drastic steps that would protect state secrets as securely as they are held, say, in the Soviet Union. Says John Martin, chief of the Justice Department's Division of Internal Security: "You've got to maintain...
...leading antagonist of the MX was Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Nunn and others have criticized the Government's plan to place the highly accurate ten-warhead missiles in existing Minuteman missile silos. Critics say that the immobile basing system makes the MX vulnerable, and a likely target for Soviet attack. Since March, Nunn has proposed limiting the number of silo-based MX's to 40, and last week he offered an amendment to the pending $302 billion defense authorization bill. When Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole realized that Nunn had enough...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was in Europe at a NATO meeting, so National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane was dispatched to Dole's office on Capitol Hill to bargain with Nunn. Despite the aggressive lobbying effort, the Administration gave in to Nunn's insistence on only twelve additional missiles in fiscal '86. The twelve to be produced will give the Air Force a total of 54 MX's. Of those, 50 can be deployed and four used either as spares or test vehicles. Under the compromise, the Air Force can order production of twelve to 21 more MX's in fiscal...