Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress last year approved a request by Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole for funds to add 1,000 new controllers over two years. Dole claims, with little support, that the "system was way overstaffed before the strike" and that new "air-flow" procedures have made it possible for fewer controllers to handle more flights safely...
...these must conform to a "Request for Proposal" (RFP) issued by St. Paul's building committee. The RFP, which only recently became public, specifies that "the criteria for selection [among the proposals] will be mainly price. Some attention, however, will be given to the type of development proposed, experience and qualifications of the developer, and to the developer's financial strength...
...emerges when the plant wants something in return: blood. Named "Audrey II" by Seymour in honor of his dreamboat, the wisecracking, ghetto-smart plant (whose booming voice is performed by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops) bellows "Feed me!" to the cringing Krelborn. How he deals with this unusual request is the problem of Little Shop...
...absence of background or typical TV moralizing gives At Mother's Request its tabloid appeal. Quite simply, these people are too crazy to learn anything from. Frances is not merely an overdemanding mother but a near psychotic whose fevered outbursts ("How dare you mention Las Vegas in this house!") would be gag lines in any other TV show. Her "good" son Marc is fixated on movie cameras and tape recorders; Larry is convinced that nuclear war will break out before his college finals. The relationship between mother and sons has a creepy Oedipal ambiguity. Says Frances to Marc, ominously...
What will Nutcracker bring? Most likely a more conventionally fleshed-out story. While At Mother's Request focuses mainly on the murder and subsequent investigation, the NBC version will provide a fuller portrait of Frances' life (Lee Remick will play the role). It may even try to make some psychological sense out of the whole sordid affair. But for sheer perversity, At Mother's Request will be hard to beat...