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...Broadway debut in Comedians). Its members objected because he was a white man playing a rare juicy Asian role (the character is actually of mixed Eurasian ancestry) and because he wore special makeup to help. Pryce, a liberal, said he was sympathetic but stubbornly held out to repeat the role, in part because it had been such a stretch to sing musical-comedy numbers after years as one of the West End's foremost interpreters of classics, especially Chekhov. As the Engineer he kowtows and skulks, sneers and connives, yet never lapses into the stereotype of the wily Oriental. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Exit to the Land of Hope | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...California-tanned Crimson hated to leave the sunshine, despite a mediocre West-Coast showing. Harvard, ranked 19th nationally, failed to repeat as champion of the University of California-Irvine Anteater Classic, finishing fifth. Long Beach State stunned the second-seeded Crimson in a quarterfinal match, nipping heavily-favored Harvard, 5-4. Top-seed and second-ranked USC won the tourney...

Author: By J. HENRY Hudepohl, | Title: Netmen Burned in California Tourney | 4/3/1991 | See Source »

T.F.A.P. was the industrial world's largest collective effort to help address the developing world's environmental problems. It was launched with assurances that the program would not repeat the mistakes of past development efforts, which included duplication of effort; rip-offs by contractors, consultants and corrupt officials; and a tendency to promote the donor's priorities at the expense of the Third World's. Unfortunately, the forestry plan ended up repeating many of these failings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Aid: Good Intentions, Woeful Results | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...women over 40) are allowed to visit relatives in the U.S. The State Department knows it will be flooded with ; requests for tourist visas if the age limit is lifted. "The Cubans are trying to embarrass us," grouses one official. The U.S. suspects that the dictator plans to repeat the 1980 Mariel boatlift, in which he exported malcontents and hardened criminals to southern Florida. "We've been on the blacklist because we don't allow free travel," responds a Havana policymaker. "Now we are doing what they demand, and still we're bad guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come the Cubans, Part 2 | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...rivalries never die--they just repeat themselves...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Cornell Edges Laxmen, 8-7 | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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