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When you mix the writing styles that have occupied space on the back page of The Crimson with the styles of Harvard hockey during the first round of the Beanpot, you get the same result since...
Andromache is a production of mordant humor, bitter irony and moral force -- if also of significant miscalculation and highly uneven acting. Some of the performers are tripped up by Eric Korn's half-arch, half-vernacular translation, in which vulgarity and clumsy colloquialism ("Is death the net result of all my love?") clash with the neoclassicism of the set and costumes. The plot is a sour inversion of the lovers' tangle in A Midsummer Night's Dream: Orestes (Kevin McNally), son of the murdered war hero Agamemnon, pursues his cousin Hermione (Penelope Wilton), daughter of Helen of Troy...
After Robins was demoted in September 1986, she transferred from Unisys to a Rockwell subsidiary, Rockwell Shuttle Operations Co. There she repeated her complaints about Unisys to her new bosses as well as to the FBI and NASA's inspector general. As a result, she states, she was isolated and continually harassed at work. She says that she received three unsigned letters containing threats such as "whistle-blowers face loss of home, family and life." Two of the other whistle-blowers also charge that anonymous telephone threats have been made against their children; they do not accuse the companies...
...crime -- yet is flavored with an authentic elixir of suspicion and dread. The central character is a radiologist caught up in what his psychiatrist colleagues would label a mid-life crisis: thunderstruck by the nubile daughter of old friends, he undertakes a frenzied search for signs of reciprocity. The result is either hysteria or someone's genuine plot to drive him crazy. Imago lacks the sociological acuity and command of character of McClure's best work, but it vividly portrays the emotional peaks and troughs of infatuation...
...uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered most Arab shops in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank for more than two weeks...