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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama group formed by Harvard's Jewish student organization will present two one-act plays this weekend, as part of an effort to produce Jewish theater and to provide a theatrical forum for students who observe the Sabbath, according to student leaders of the troupe, called the Hillel Dramatics Group...
...wanted to provide an alternative to observant students," said Goodman. But she added that the primary purpose of the performances is to "present Jewish art. Although "The Wave" is an academic play, "Oral History" deals with prejudice and inter-generational issues and is really quite ethnic...
Gale arrived in Rio on Oct. 17. By then some of the patients' radiation- ravaged bone marrow could not produce sufficient immune cells to fight off ever present bacteria. Doctors battled soaring fevers, infection and internal bleeding with sophisticated antibiotics and clotting agents. At Chernobyl, Gale and Selidovkin had tried to save severely affected technicians and fire fighters with bone-marrow transplants. The medical team in Rio decided against that surgical tactic, in part because the patients' bone marrow had not been irreversibly destroyed and because, from the nature of their exposure, some of the sickest patients had become radioactive...
...filmmakers tried for something more crimson. "We sat in a room for four days," recalls Dearden. "Obviously the present ending makes Alex a complete psycho. It works well as a piece of cinema but makes her less authentic." In July they were back in Mount Kisco, N.Y., for reshooting. Dearden wrote the new ending, "because I wanted to maintain some degree of influence over it." (The original ending may be used when Fatal Attraction is released in Japan next year...
Although most attention focused on Gorbachev's treatment of the past, he also included some significant remarks about the present. Announcing a potentially dramatic shift in Moscow's relations with its East bloc satellites, Gorbachev declared that "all ((Communist)) parties are completely and irreversibly independent." He stressed this point again in an address to foreign delegates two days later, renouncing the "arrogance of omniscience" that he said had formerly governed Moscow's ties with its Communist allies. Gorbachev's statements appeared to rescind the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, proposing intervention in defense of socialist regimes, that was used to justify...