Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting of the City Council last night, members voted to purchase the Lee B. Macht Community Health Center's building, which Cambridge currently leases. City Manager Robert W. Healy said the move, although expensive at first, would help reduce Cambridge Hospital's $6.8 million deficit...
Screenplay by Robert Harling...
...material and form prevents the place from seeming too slick and self-serious. And - because Eisenman remains rather perverse. The four painting and sculpture galleries, for instance, amorphous and oddly shaped, could tend to confound picture hanging. "I don't want to say they're not problematic," admits Robert Stearns, the Wexner Center's very game director...
...observant of playwright Robert Harling to see that a small-town beauty parlor can function as a little lodge hall for women, a place where they can let their hair down while it is being put up. It was clever of him to stock Steel Magnolias with Southern belles, wicked of eye and tongue, though ultimately forgiving of heart. It was shrewd of him to work his successful off-Broadway drama around personal milestones (marriage, birth, death) that everyone shares. His characters may be exotics, but their situations are achingly familiar...
...backlash against heavy-handed defense measures, however, is starting to develop. "Why call it a school? Let's call it a prison," complains Robert Rubel, who directs the National Alliance for Safe Schools, a nonprofit advisory group based in Bethesda, Md. He argues that it is impossible to prevent random violence. Rubel thinks schools should be diligent in controlling all kinds of disorder, handling violations of their own rules and turning crimes over to the police...