Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heurtebise's presence is often quite a relief in this production, as it manages to counteract the strained sense of tragedy Steven Crist insists on projecting through Orpheus. Regardless of the situation. Crist speaks in the same strident, anguished voice, which, predictably, soon grows monotonous. The play needs some contrast to the gentility of Heurtebise and the coy good nature of Eurydice, but Orpheus fails to provide that balance--harshly disrupting the triangle of their relationship, instead...
...television show in a poll conducted by the Japanese TV Guide. Falk's international success has not come smoothly, however. When Rumania's state TV network ran out of shows, fans of the raincoated detective began to protest, and the beleaguered network cabled Universal Studios for temporary relief. Said Falk in Hollywood last week: "The Rumanian government got me to tape an announcement in Rumanian saying, 'Just be patient; there'll be more Columbos. Hold tight.' They flew here with a camera crew and gave me a piece of paper with what...
...relief, Safire was never enough of an insider to be admitted to Nixon's Watergate conversations. But he was the official notetaker at countless other meetings, scribbling away, cleaning up everyone's syntax, deleting ahs and ahums, making everyone sound decisive. He did not know, of course, that Nixon's recorders were silently and efficiently capturing everything that he was leaving out. ∙Edward Magnuson
...Faith Healer Kathryn Kuhlman, who is neither an ordained minister nor a physician but heads a Pittsburgh-based foundation that bears her name. Followup, however, showed that Kuhlman's cures were something less than miraculous. Sufferers from migraine headaches, which are often caused by emotional problems, did feel relief after the healing service. So did people with bursitis, a painful but transient joint inflammation, and a few with multiple sclerosis, a cyclical disease that often gets better before it gets worse. But cancer victims remained noticeably unhealed. One cancer patient, who felt so good during the service witnessed...
Fisher has accumulated a throng of "collateral interests" that he cultivates because he is a man who does not like to distinguish between his vocations and avocations. He has played the recorder since law school ("The problem of getting the next note was a pleasant occupational relief from the problem of studying law") and he is the only one of his father's children to have inherited the old man's fondness for bird-watching. Fisher also cooks, sketches, sails and plays chamber music...