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...strong, driven and bizarrely triumphant woman is convincing. She succeeds at the difficult feat of making an unrepentant infanticidal mother a compelling and even sympathetic character. J.C. Wolfgang Murad, as Medea's wayward husband Jason, is a little hesitant in the early sections, but reaches a convincingly enraged pitch by the final scenes...
Northeastern (11-5-1) hates the stuff, and when the Crimson steps onto the pitch, it knows that Cumnock's lawn will be its greatest ally...
...scramble for the new Administration's 3,000 appointed jobs has already reached a fever pitch -- as has the inevitable speculation about candidates for the plum posts. For Defense Secretary, there is talk of a three-way race between House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn. Retiring Colorado Senator Tim Wirth has been dubbed a possible Secretary of the Interior or Energy. Among the dozen or so names mentioned for Secretary of State, the leading candidate seems to be Warren Christopher, deputy secretary in the Carter Administration...
...massive campaign to privatize state industries on Oct. 1, Boris Yeltsin's government began issuing vouchers worth 10,000 rubles (U.S.$33) to every man, woman and child in Russia to be used toward buying shares in newly privatized enterprises. It could hardly give them away. Despite the pitch, the offer was met with widespread confusion and apathy. One poll revealed that fully half of Moscow residents did not know what to do with the vouchers once they got them...
...Strindberg's Ghost Sonata: "Silence hides nothing. Words conceal." Two of the salesmen, Moss (Ed Harris) and Aaronow (Alan Arkin), sit in a bar, grousing about the real estate company. It is as much a part of their job as sounding stardusted with sweet reason while on a pitch. Moss sketches an idea for a theft of the office, and later tells Aaronow he is implicated in the scheme. Aaronow asks, "And why is that?" Moss replies, "Because you listened...