Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written, and the English translations by the author and others do their best to obey the spirit of this injunction. Storytellers appear suddenly, with scant preamble, and seem eager to get off the page as soon as possible. They punctuate their narratives with such remarks as "To make it short . . ." and "Why drag it out?" The Trap involves yet another caller at the writer's apartment, a woman on crutches who announces, "I'm not going to bother you with too many details. I'll come right to the point...
...business community was more friendly, in the person of Rasul Barat, 31, a dapper entrepreneur who boasted, "Half of Mazar-i-Sharif is mine." Barat welcomed his guests with a poolside barbecue complete with lamb kabob and imported German beer. Elected a short time ago to the Afghan legislature, & Barat claimed that Afghanistan's taxes were so low he had recently been able to import three autos, from Mercedes, Mitsubishi and Ford...
...firm's young associates, tried last fall to get a pair of feuding former business partners to settle their contract dispute out of court, there was a hint (rare on L.A. Law) that she might not be pulling her weight at the firm. The doubts, however, were short-lived: her clients made up, praised her effusively in front of the boss -- and got her a big raise to boot. No good deed goes unrewarded at McKenzie, Brackman. The show says you can have your ideals and your...
...TALE OF LEAR. Japanese Avant-Garde Director Tadashi Suzuki and four U.S. regional theaters joinly create an incantatory short version of Shakespeare's tragedy, now at StageWest in Springfield, Mass...
...have to love opera to like Aria. In fact, knowledge of music drama may prove a liability in appreciating this anthology of ten short films by ten prominent directors, each one spitballing on themes from the opera repertory. If, however, you are a connoisseur of rock videos, with their images like Day- Glo wallpaper after a food fight, you will feel right at home. Watching three of the segments (based on hit songs from Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino and Rigoletto), purists could sneer at Aria as MTV -- Movies Trash Verdi. But Producer Don Boyd...