Word: pan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chorus members also play minor roles, director John Ashworth has managed to fuse ancient with modern. His two leads, Dionysus (Dede Schmeiner) and Nanthias (David de Berker) as the god and her servant, each display distinctive brands of comedy. Schmeiner makes her Dionysus an impish figure, a lusty Peter Pan, while her slave opts for a broader comic style, occasionally reminiscent of the Three Stooges. These two mug and grin at each other and, since the Fogg's courtyard leaves both stage and seating level, often draw the audience in on their jokes and jibes. At times their humor...
...Airlines in a Nose Dive" [March 22], you pointed out Pan Am's falling load factor and said, "TWA's [load factor] dropped even further in the first two months of this year to 49.1%." Untrue! TWA's load factor rose by 1.7 percentage points in the first two months of 1982 to 53.2%, reflecting our continuing program of reducing excess capacity-the plague of the industry...
...Salvadoran guerrillas, meanwhile, are boycotting the election campaign and disrupting it with bold attacks, principally on economic targets. A slashing rebel probe last week shut off a major stretch of the country's Pan American Highway and destroyed a key bridge, effectively isolating a third of the northeastern Morazán department and putting it virtually under guerrilla control. Displaying the same tenacity that they had shown a week earlier in heavy fighting around the Guazapa volcano, the guerrillas were able to surprise and tie down army forces with smoothly coordinated assaults within the provincial capitals of San Vicente...
...streets, tin-roofed houses and open cooking fires, the people recall how the army swept through last month, apparently on a hunt for left-wingers. When the troops left, at least 19 people were dead. "You heard the trucks pull up," said a stout woman frying vegetables in a pan over a wood stove. "The dogs started to bark. The soldiers came marching fast down the streets. They banged on doors, and they dragged people out." It is a litany that could also describe the raids of many right-wing death squads. In El Salvador, the vultures have learned...
...planes with enough bargain-hungry passengers to return the carriers to profitability. Industry "load-factors," or numbers of seats filled on scheduled flights, keep going down, from 59.1% in 1980 to 58.7% last year, with some individual airlines in far worse shape. During February, for example, financially ailing Pan Am's load-factor slipped to 54.8% of capacity, from 60.8% last year, while TWA's dropped even further in the first two months of this year...