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...registration and get-out-the-vote efforts is likely to benefit Democrats, particularly gubernatorial candidate Gray Davis, who is running on a ticket with Lieutenant Governor candidate CRUZ BUSTAMANTE, the first Latino speaker of the California assembly. An estimated 600,000 new Hispanic voters have registered in California since Prop 187, and, for the most part, they are not voting Republican...
...Hollywood prop man could design a more fitting set for the top rifleman than Heston's study, situated on a ridge overlooking Coldwater Canyon, with a view of the distant Pacific Ocean. Models of Air Force bombers and spent .50-cal. machine-gun casings adorn a side table ("I was a gunner in the war"). A portrait of Hemingway ("He was not a very nice man") hangs above a cartoon from the strip Hagar the Horrible ("with whom I have great sympathy"). Stacked around his desk like a fortress are volumes on the Boer War, the Civil War and World...
...school, where four students march onstage, recite their Latin and math lessons and then embark on an impromptu performance of Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...
...what that might mean for the U.S. and Europe at the beginning of last week, when global stock markets began cascading downward because of the weakness of the yen. The disarray in those markets coupled with China's complaints prompted the U.S. and Japan to intervene last week to prop...
Nunn has done a masterly job of taming this unruly work. The audience sits, theater-in-the-round style, on opposing sides of a long stage. At one end is a two-level block of cells; at the other, the warden's office, where every prop--desk, telephone, picture frames, even the American flag--is a grim steel gray. He doesn't soften the melodramatic excesses, yet he emphasizes the metaphorical overtones. There are references to Mussolini and Hitler ("that monkey with the trick mustache"); a Jewish convict laments, "I come of a people that are used to suffer...