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...Great White Way -- including many more new dramas and a much more varied range of revivals -- and commonly does them better. In recent years British superiority even extended to Broadway's signature genre, the musical. As a succession of London hits was packed up for export (and runaway profit), Broadway started to seem like just an early stop on the international touring circuit...
...have a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this potential catastrophe is the rebellion in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir, an 87-mile-long valley that is home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement for secession that is joined even by local police and civil servants. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels. Islamabad denies the charge, but the Bhutto government openly gives its political support to the rebellion...
...campaign, Bush last week practically invited Congress to start pushing, with a hint that his lips might now frame something other than a flat no. The President asked congressional leaders to join Administration officials in a "summit" meeting to plan, at long last, a real whack at the runaway budget deficit. His spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Bush wanted the talks to start with "no preconditions" and proceed "unfettered with conclusions about positions taken in the past." Meaning, everyone assumed, that a tax increase could at least be seriously discussed, and Bush just might let himself be talked into...
...fireballing pitcher in Bull Durham. Thought is for him a face-scrunching agony. Ideas -- rare occurrences -- render his countenance beatifically beamish. But since life is mostly utterly unpredictable to him, he is atwitch with dangerously unmediated impulses. Williams is his opposite, a man racing to keep up with a runaway brain, yet striving, hopelessly, to project an air of normality...
While the ornery weather may turn Die Hard 2 into the most expensive film Hollywood will release this summer, the episode was merely part of a runaway spending spree that has made movies more costly -- and risky -- than ever. With an eye toward lucrative video and foreign revenues, studios are lavishing breathtaking sums on everything from stars to scripts to scenery. Hollywood now spends an average of $23.5 million to produce a major movie, up 40% from 1985. (The Consumer Price Index rose just 14.5% over the same period.) "Studios just keep piling on the cost, thinking that they will...