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...just, Carpenter has a singularly unwieldy stage to work with. It seems appealing enough at the start of the play, with its mottled sky, its rich backdrops and proliferation of Druidic carvings, but the self-conscious surrealism begins to pall before long. In addition, the props are all concentrated at the back and sides of the stage, leaving an expanse of unrelieved, barren floor space in the middle...
Even retirement will pall for former Politburo members. They will have to do without the household workers and car the state had provided to each. That's enough to make a bigwig take to his sickbed, but illness could be a problem too. The number of people entitled to use the special clinics reserved for the privileged will be cut by two-thirds...
BOSTON--Refusing to let the state's gloomy fiscal outlook cast a pall over his day of festivity, a smiling William F. Weld '66 took office yesterday as the 68th governor of Massachusetts...
...enormous chunk of space rock hit the planet, the Alvarezes theorized, it would have largely disintegrated, casting a pall of iridium-rich dust and other debris over the world that could have lasted for months. Deprived of sunlight by this all-natural version of "nuclear winter," plants -- and the animals that fed on them -- would have died in droves. And when the dust finally settled, the iridium it contained would have formed just such a layer as the Alvarezes found...
Most important for Bush, runaway interest rates would cast a pall on the Administration's sunny outlook for economic growth, which is central to its plans to cut the budget deficit. The White House expects the economy to expand by a robust 3.3% in 1989, vs. the 2.7% growth rate predicted by a consensus of top private forecasters. The Administration's scenario for a fast-moving economy would raise more than $80 billion in fresh tax revenues and help Bush meet the $100 billion deficit ceiling mandated by the Gramm-Rudman law for fiscal...