Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thud to denote anger. His performance, anything but a star turn, is intelligent, confident and touching. Hoffman brings to mind his ingratiating Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman or, even more strongly, his film work in Straw Dogs as a quiet man driven beyond endurance into mayhem. The show never stints on the virulent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare's world, although Hall employs subtle staging and lighting cues to mollify modern spectators' disquiet at the injustice of the ending. The production is under discussion for transfer to the U.S. As with London's other pair of current triumphs...
...prospect of seeing Hoffman on stage as Shylock -- or perhaps as anything at all -- prompted Londoners to buy out essentially the entire four-month run of The Merchant of Venice, giving the play the largest advance sale of any nonmusical show in West End history. For once the actual event is no disappointment, although in director Peter Hall's shrewd reading the play is more comedy than tragedy and focuses more on Portia (played by Geraldine James of TV's The Jewel in the Crown) than on Shylock...
...must also win congressional approval before it can proceed, since antitrust law generally prohibits joint manufacturing ventures between major competitors. But experts predict that Congress will make an exception for U.S. Memories. Besides the potential gain in chips, they contend, the lessons learned from the DRAM joint venture could show American industry how to become more competitive in other high-tech areas, including high-definition television...
...years since, by tabulating sunspot records going back to the early 18th century and using improved telescopes, satellites, advanced instruments and modern theory, scientists have become ever more familiar with the bizarre dance of the sunspots. Each cycle begins when spots show up in both the northern and southern hemispheres about 35 degrees away from the solar equator. As the cycle matures and the older sunspots fade away (some last only a few hours, others for weeks and even months), new and more numerous spots appear at lower latitudes. Toward the end of the cycle, diminished in number, they appear...
PAUL McCARTNEY: FLOWERS IN THE DIRT (Capitol). McCartney goes back to the future by returning to his old Beatles label and collaborating with a shrewd, spiky co-writer, Elvis Costello. That Day Is Done and My Brave Face show both these lads in top form, and the entire album has a buoyancy that has eluded McCartney for years...