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Nonetheless, he maintained, the U.S. already has something like industrial policy in place. Federal, state and local authorities are giving large grants to prop up aging industries and encourage new ones. The Administration has proposed merging trade officials now spread around several federal agencies into a single department that would be modeled after Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. In addition, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency is expected to spend nearly $1 billion by the end of the decade to help firms look into supercomputers and other hightechnology areas. "We have all kinds...
...state Supreme Judicial Court ordered the revaluation in 1976. But the process gained importance as a result of the 1980 tax-cutting measure Proposition 2 1/2. Under Prop 2 1/2, cities and towns in Massachusetts are required to reduce their property tax rates by 15 percent a year, until they reach a level of 2 1/2 percent of the total assessed value of their real estate...
...since then, Hockney's main contribution to the stage has been as a colorist. Through the '60s and '70s, opera audiences got used to an intimidating degree of abstraction in sets and costumes-sweeping bare stages with a significant prop or two, or else labyrinths of neo-Bayreuth gloom where spotlights jabbed accusatory fingers through banks of theatrical fog. This design orthodoxy, based on texture, shadow, "sublime" cavelike space, was a necessary reaction against older conventions of the painted background: the unenchanted tempera forest with every stale leaf in place. But it left out color...
Despite the prop impediments, the cast, filled with Boston professional actors, veteran Harvard actors, and several novices to the Harvard stage, has no trouble delving into its characters. Freshman Michael Albion gives a sensitive portrayal of King Leontes, using his monologues to reveal his characters' insecurity, blind rage, and pompous narcissicism. Maryann Bergonzi as Paulina and Pamela Knickrehm as Hermione, two local actresses, give superb performances. Bergonzi stands out with her exquisite enuncition and her somber, melancholy, yet determined facial expressions. Two more freshmen--Tucker McCrady as Florizel, King Polixenes' son, and Laurence Bouvard as Leontes's long-lost daughter...
...convincing but heartrending, with a meek bearing masking an inner, doomed nobility of character. What keeps him and Brack from salvaging the play is the same lack of ambition that hampers the other actors. This time, though, the lack comes in the production staff itself. High-schoolish, thrown-together props repeatedly puncture the illusion, starting with the opening complaint of a maiden aunt (Barbara Nathan). "There's no more space here for these flowers," she laments, looking around at the polished, unoccupied tabletops of the Quincy JCR. "So many people have sent flowers already." In later scenes Hedda's envious...