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Artistically, the company already seems secure. The first four productions, although they tend toward the conventional and ingratiating, all have a high gloss, especially in design. Phillips and Phillip Silver have created a standing set: a streamlined, frame-and-window contraption that can look like a temple, a skyscraper or the wall of a conservatory. It neatly frames an all but impeccable The Doctor's Dilemma, Shaw's affectionate satire of medical theories, artistic pretensions and the absurd complexities brought on by love. The plot, a wittily constructed but logically dubious foofaraw, about a physician who must decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Great Expectations in Canada | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Elsie had a heart attack in 1965, and the Baumanns sold the original Elsie's to Phillip Markell. They moved to Falmouth, and were so restless they opened a new restaurant one year later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elsie's Tradition Endures in Falmouth | 10/18/1983 | See Source »

...other C.W.A. people concede that employees will be trained for jobs not only inside Bell but elsewhere in U.S. industry, marking one of the first times in labor history that a company has agreed to give people broad skills for careers instead of techniques for specific tasks. Says Phillip DeLong, manager of media relations for A T & T: "We're not talking about job protection, but employment protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in Service | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Screenwriter John Hunter makes the story of this latter-day Rip Van Winkle strangely touching; anyone struggling to adapt to the technologies of the 1980s is bound to admire his good-humored patience with the ways of the world he nev er made. Director Phillip Borsos has an unpretentious eye for natural beauty and an admirable restraint that forces neither the melodrama nor the elegy. And Richard Farnsworth, the former stuntman who was so fine in Comes a Horseman, gives another splendid performance here. Like the movie, he is slight but sturdy. Film and actor compel one to lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Cool Sips of Summer | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...Division of Applied Sciences recommended Associate Professor Phillip A. Bernstein for tenure, but President Bok overturned the proposal, a move which apparently cost the University an advanced computer system worth $200,000. Bok turns down 10 to 15 percent of all departmental tenure nominations a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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