Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, rough edges are expected in any corporate realignment involving $155 billion in assets. Most of the minor troubles will be worked out in time, but some of the problems run deeper. Executives in the regional holding companies, as well as those in the local operating companies, are wrestling with the crucial and politically delicate issue of deciding how much to charge the public for what kinds of service. Said Paul F. Levy, chairman of the Massachusetts department of public utilities: "January 1 was the operation. After that we go into intensive care...
...Harvard's third straight setback in ECAC competition, evening its record at 4-4 I in conference play. And B.C. (12-2 overall, 7-2 in ECAC play) was just the first Crimson opponent in what shapes up as an especially difficult schedule for reading period--traditionally a rough stretch for Harvard. This weekend features an imposing road trip to St. Lawrence and Clarkson, with a visit to Providence College next Thursday...
...CONTINENTS. For Hall, it has been a rough year on the roller coaster of notoriety, after triumphs in 1982 at the National (including Harold Pinter's Other Places) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote...
...that the Palestinians could not have peace and final settlement unless they recognized Israel, that is, unless they accepted the legality of the state created by the partition of Palestine. This is equally true of Israel itself... In the here and now, in this imperfect realm of, at best, rough human justice, Israel was given a charter to part of the land, and it rightly demands that it be allowed to live there in safety. Israel's moral strength, and the possibility of its finally achieving peace, rest inevitably on its recommitment to the basic bargain that was struck...
Indeed, Sir has become the thing he plays, a Lear-like creature wandering the blasted heath that is wartime Britain. The women of his company are very rough analogues to Lear's daughters, while Norman is certainly meant to be understood as the Fool. But Ronald Harwood's adaptation of his own play does not force these comparisons too hard. It is perfectly possible to enjoy The Dresser simply as a backstage fable, rich in the full-tilt emotional exaggeration of plays and pictures that try to catch showfolk off guard, offstage. Or as a fairly acute study...