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...religious ritual, a shower of aimless verbal fireworks or perhaps a murmured hint of psychotic menace. Too often setting such moods has been an end in itself rather than a means to what satisfies audiences: telling a coherent, affecting story. In the effort to avoid being old-fashioned, to prove that the stage has an authentic voice beyond the naturalism commonly found in film and TV, theater directors often turn their backs on narrative or at least overlook basic flaws in the plausibility of characters and the logic of plots. They take, in effect, a rock-video approach to their...
...also a high-risk gamble. The elements may prove truly irreconcilable, and Deng's bold experiments could dissolve into economic chaos. It is even possible that they could give way, though probably not until after his death, to at least a partial restoration of the ironfisted, xenophobic rule and extreme regimentation imposed on China by Deng's predecessor Mao Tse-tung. But in 1985 Deng gave fresh evidence of his determination to push his reforms through to their conclusion, whatever that might be. Having essentially completed a transformation in the countryside, where 80% of China's masses live, by freeing...
Deng admitted recently that showcase projects like the Special Economic Zones have yet to prove their value. On the whole, though, he remains committed to welcoming foreign goods and capital. "There are those who say we should not open our windows, because open windows let in flies and other insects," he remarked in October. "They want the windows to stay closed, so we all expire from lack of air. But we say, 'Open the windows, breathe the fresh air and at the same time fight the flies and insects...
...When the first such legislation was implemented in California in 1970, it was hailed by many for permitting a marriage to be dissolved simply through one partner's decision to do so. It thus promised an end to the unsavory courtroom squabbles in which husbands and wives tried to prove each other guilty of infidelity or mental cruelty. Today some version of no-fault is the law in every state, although most do not permit divorce quite so easily as California...
...trying for the past two years to persuade Washington to place an order. Unless the F-20 gets Uncle Sam's seal of approval, the bird won't fly with foreign buyers, for whom it was mainly designed in the first place. Northrop will soon get a chance to prove that its long and largely successful p.r. campaign for the F-20 was justified: the Tigershark will go head to head with the F-16, which now dominates the fighter-interceptor market, in a computer-simulated...