Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a clay pigeon for Silvia, the lovely daughter of the Duke, and his love throes are even more tortured and ludicrous than Proteus's. But when Proteus arrives he, too, is smitten by Silvia's beauty, resolves to lose his friend, Julia, and himself to win her. The rest of the play revolves around Proteus's despicable betrayals of friend and lover in his attempt to have the reluctant Silvia...
...provides a decent opposite to Catherine Rust's marvelous Silvia. Echoing Juliet's poignancy, Silvia is the best realized character in Shakespeare's script, and Rust does the part justice and more. Her voice shakes with genuine emotion and her gestures have none of the stiffness that hampers the rest of the cast. She saves the production from utter desuetude...
Kirsten Giroux's Julia is somewhat too petulant and childish in the first two acts, but when she disguises herself as a page to pursue Proteus, she makes more of her part and ends up being pleasantly engaging. The rest of the cast, with one exception, is conventional, adequate, and relatively nondescript...
...reopen (answer: no) to the prices grocery shops can charge. Kani, who operates out of a makeshift office in Tehran's parliament building, says that the authority of this parallel administration will now be consolidated by "drastically cutting" the number of local groups and by bringing the rest under the direct control of the central Komiteh in Tehran. The Komiteh will also foster "understanding of the Islamic revolutionary objectives" by propagandizing through television and radio programs, recorded cassettes and a newspaper...
...from Washington. Says Jouppi: "GM and Ford will pretty much determine what the cars of the future will be. There just isn't anyone around who can compete effectively. Between them they will divide up two-thirds of the world market and leave the remaining third for the rest." In the meantime, ready or not, the auto-buying public can sit back and enjoy one of the most tumultuous periods of change since the car replaced the horse...