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Three performances particularly stand out: James Houghton as Brick. Hannah Cox as Maggie, and Jon King as Big Daddy. Each one-envelops his character, letting the lines prompt his actions and reveal his own particular inner turmoil: Houghton's Brick, who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: On the Hot Seat | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...week began with a theatrical standoff. The State Department brusquely summoned Oleg Sokolov, the deputy chief of mission at the Soviet embassy. Standing face to face with Sokolov, John Kelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, read a terse letter that "demanded ... prompt, adequate and effective compensation" for the death of the 61 Americans aboard Flight 007. When Kelly attempted to hand Sokolov the note, the Soviet diplomat refused to accept it. Kelly then declared that the U.S. refused to accept Sokolov's refusal. The routine was repeated at week's end when Assistant Secretary of State Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Salvaging the Remains | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...attention, for he's an expert on both." The President's own pollster, Richard B. Wirthlin, samples opinions frequently to give Reagan a measure of American attitudes apart from what Wirthlin calls "the din and tumult represented by the press and pressure groups." Presumably these polls prompt conciliatory gestures like Reagan's appointment of Henry Kissinger. But, as a White House friend told Lou Harris, whatever accommodations Reagan makes on domestic issues, in foreign policy he does not use "a criterion of political advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Hype and Macho Rhetoric | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

Sometimes, the council's hasty approach became expensive, leading to the funding of certain projects that suffered from budget overruns and inadequate planning. But what may prove to have been the council's most costly error in its first year is one that, if uncorrected, could prompt the council's demise: An inadequate amount of regular contact with the undergraduate body...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: High Hopes and Birth Pains | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting up programs based on their K-School experience...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Spreading the Word | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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