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While Broadway producers are humming to the tune of profitable musicals like City of Angels, the plight of drama is downbeat. Theaters that once launched plays by Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets have become hostile territory for non-musical works. With tickets hitting $60, theatergoers typically prefer the full song-and-dance for their money. To rebuild drama's audience, a coalition of producers, unions, theater owners and suppliers has created the Broadway Alliance, a unique agreement that will cut ticket costs by as much...
...Everyone remembers where we stood in the mid-'80s. The arms race was gathering momentum. The nations of the Third World were in a terrible plight. Regional conflicts constantly threatened to get out of control. Enmity kept the world permanently disturbed and waiting for disaster, for global explosions...
...mortgage on his small auto-repair shop in Lexington, Mass. But last February the Bank of Boston suddenly called in the loan. The bank, which was responding to pressure from U.S. regulators to tighten credit standards, relented only after an outraged Richardson went public with his plight by telling it to reporters in a one-man media blitz. Says he: "It would have made no sense to close my doors and sell everything off just to pay back the bank. How absolutely ridiculous and astounding for a little loan like that...
...event took place in the Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the constituency of Prime Minister V.P. Singh, and the landlord is a Thakur, a member of the same upper caste as the nation's leader. Eager to embarrass the Prime Minister, the opposition Congress (I) Party has turned the plight of Kuchchi Devi into the country's leading cause celebre...
...plight of the vice-president of the Harvard Republican Club has received much coverage in these pages recently. I feel that several things require clarification. Readers who have been following the saga should be interested to know the following...