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CHRISTOPHER CANNON Republican--Utah 3rd Cannon, using $1 million of his own money, narrowly defeated three-term incumbent William Orton...
...weeks ago, the Pentagon released the first detailed information about the size, type and location of the weapons caches in eight states and on Johnston Atoll. Major General Robert Orton, who heads the Army's chemical-weapons-destruction project, predicted, "This will help minimize misunderstandings, expedite the environmental permitting processes and save money." But the history of the one operating incinerator is not reassuring. Though the Johnston facility has destroyed 3% of the nation's stockpile since coming on line in 1990, the effort has been plagued by mishaps. Conveyor belts, chutes and gates have jammed; a rocket exploded inside...
...tally will be updated throughout the program. Normally the swimsuit competition is the first event of the evening; this year it will be the last--unless it is eliminated. Which it won't be. Straw polls indicate wide support. And 42 of the contestants are for it. Says Emily Orton, Miss Oregon: "The media can make you feel a lot more naked than a swimsuit. So if you can't be comfortable competing in this, you won't feel comfortable being Miss America...
...once comic and desperate, sustained Osborne throughout a volatile career as playwright, film writer (Tom Jones) and memoirist (A Better Class of Person). More important, it stoked a ferment in a then sleepy popular culture. Anger's curdling inflections and class animosities were echoed in the plays of Joe Orton and Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a direct descendant), in Dennis Potter's savage TV scripts and in a generation of performers, from Albert Finney to the Beatles, whom Osborne's example encouraged to speak in their own rude voices. He was the first...
...purely formal level, the production works. The actor's timing keeps the pace clipping along and the audience laughing. Led briskly by Margaret Gibson, playing Mrs. Prentice, the cast adheres strictly to the whimsical spirit of Orton's text. The set (designed by Derek McLane) and costumes (by Catherine Zuber) reinforce the historical context of the play. Under the direction of David Wheeler, the A.R.T. production is seamless, except for a few chaotic moments when the stage order unnecessarily falls apart. Overall, however, the play is well excecuted...