Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...items on his agenda. "I think it is absolutely essential that we do better," he says. Most other publishers agree. Nearly 100 news organizations were represented at the N.A.B.J. job fair, where a blizzard of minority resumes were traded. But for skeptics who have seen it all before, the proof is not in the prospecting but in the follow-up. Says Monte Trammer, the first black publisher of New York's Saratoga Springs Saratogian: "Affirmative action appears to be an area where whites are rewarded for intent and effort rather than results...
...smaller, propeller-driven planes, which could use relatively short runways. Hemmed in by development, such airports will have trouble handling any significant increase in traffic. As a result, "we're heading for one of the most dramatic cases of peacetime rationing this country has ever seen," declares Philip Bakes, president of Eastern Air Lines. Says Clifton Moore, chief administrator of Los Angeles International: "There may be a time when you will have to book a flight well in advance, or pay someone for a black- market ticket." Rationing of sorts is already beginning at Boston's airport, where officials have...
Still to come this season are two formidable challenges for the Guthrie and its audience alike. One is Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's harrowing vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better...
...Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
...LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. There was a movie buried under all the pre- release protest. Now that ticket lines are replacing picket lines, Martin Scorsese's film can be seen as a full-bodied meditation on Jesus' humanity. And a terrific movie...