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...with Gierek and other high-ranking Poles at the Sejm (parliament) building. For three hours and 45 minutes, they discussed stalled negotiations on troop reductions by NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, Poland's complaints that U.S. antidumping regulations have unfairly hurt its exports and Carter's plea that more Poles be allowed to join their families in the U.S. Afterward Carter announced that the U.S. will provide Poland with $200 million in credits to buy food and feed grains-in addition to an earlier $300 million deal-to help make up for four years of Polish crop...
...acting competition. Robert LuPone's Dauphin is such a prancing cipher that one fears the crown that Joan se cures for him at Rheims Cathedral will melt his head. Paul Sparer, as the Inquisitor, gives a saturnine gravity to the renowned and convoluted speech on heresy, but his plea for justice with mercy is a trifle smarmy. Only Philip Bosco as the English Earl of Warwick conveys nobility in voice and bearing...
...proposal to ban federal funds for Medicaid abortions. Caught by surprise, Senate liberals adopted a strategy that backfired: they went along with Hyde's bill, assuming that the Supreme Court would find it unconstitutional. But the court last June upheld state laws banning Medicaid abortions, despite an impassioned plea from Harry Blackmun, author of the 1973 abortion decision, that the latest ruling was "almost reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.' " His point: the court in effect was making medically safe abortions legally available only to women who can pay for them...
...recent years, the preproduction interview with a Broadway playwright has taken the place of the Shavian preface. Unlike the Shavian preface, it is rarely witty and seldom illuminating. Customarily, it sounds like last-minute plea bargaining from a man who feels that his pressagent has been negligent in plugging the upcoming show...
...contrast, the other actors generally remain trapped within the superficial seriousness of their roles. From the first moment he rushes onstage to confront the king, John Bellucci's Hotspur is the embodiment of the choleric passions that gave that character his name. Racing from lord to lord in a plea to keep his prisoners, Belluci's Hotspur is impulsive, impatient and proud. And where his frenetic gestures grow tiring, his beautiful voice, sneering at some words, spitting out others, compensates. Still, the limitations of Bellucci's portrayal are apparent in the scenes he plays with his wife. While Susan Kander...