Word: presented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates urged those present to lobby for social programs that strive to improve the lives of the impoverished. "For what is at stake," he said, "is the survival of our country and the survival of the black people...
...journey through hell. The casting of Von Sydow is uncannily perfect, suitably dramatic and humorous at once. Unfortunately, except for Von Sydow, Vincent Ward's film fails to reconcile its diverse tones. What Dreams May Come is a remarkably inconsistent work, failing at a very basic level to present uniform structure and characters...
What Dreams May Come does even worse by its characters. Early scenes of their courtship present Williams and Sciorra as a prototypical couple madly in love and without any discernible flaws. Williams is light and animated, while Sciorra is a placid beauty. They laugh and giggle, dance and frolic in slow motion as a means of establishing their love for one another. But as Williams and Sciorra age (and, in fact, die) they lose all traces of their original characters...
...last weekend's appearance of Hamlet in Sanders, much-hyped as the first production of the play there since '56--and the first dramatic production in that space in a decade. Hamlet was the strongly-crafted realization of what was from the start an astonishingly ambitious goal: to present Hamlet straight and to do it well. If the show didn't yield any brilliant new insights into the classic text, it did pull off the laudable achievement of throwing considerable effort, thought and time into making the play accessible and entertaining to its modern audience...
...Democrats might hesitate at the idea oftacitly endorsing the administration of L.A. MayorRichard J. Riordon, who many moderate Republicanshope may come to present a new face for the partyin future year...