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...afraid to grapple with what are usually regarded as Dickens' excesses-of feeling or of outrage -and the result is a shameless but triumphant cavalcade of immediate emotion. There is only one textual alteration, which is minor but telling: a rebalancing of the relationship between Nicholas and the orphan Smike, whom he rescues from an oppressive school in Yorkshire and tries to help. His efforts at this, his successes and his failures, are the core of the play, and the last moments-instead of being quite the cozy denouement arranged by Dickens-become a direct challenge to the audience...
Irving S. Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont, reports that his company is recycling waste material to reduce the disposal problem and keeps a watchful eye on the contractors it uses for disposal. The most critical problem, as he sees it, is to clean up widely scattered "orphan waste sites" that no one has supervised. Says he: "Let's start with today, not worry about who did what in the past. Government and industry should work together rather than get emotional. We've got to get going rather than sitting around trying to figure out who's wearing...
...impressive as the old ones that have gone into it. The Man of La Mancha first had his impossible dream there in 1965, and Shenandoah followed nine years later. Annie also got her start there in 1976, and four years later is still S.R.O. on Broadway. Wherever the orphan goes, she is still remembered fondly in her home town of East Haddam, Conn. The 1% of Annie's box-office gross that the Opera House retained covers a substantial part of its $325,000 yearly deficit. After Johnny...
Many observers say that Carter sought the department's creation solely as a political payoff to the powerful NEA. The association issued its first-ever endorsement of a political candidate in exchange for Carter's agreement to find the orphan-child education a home...
...years later the bill arrives. A French acquaintance calls to say that the woman, Nicole Guerin, has been killed in an auto accident, leaving her nine-year-old son Jean-Claude an orphan. The caller is certain that Bob is the father of the child. Bob accepts paternity on rather thin evidence and is immediately skewered by a dilemma: Should he clam up and preserve the perfection of his homelife or fess up and accept responsibility for his illegitimate...