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Silver is one member of the cast who does pull it off. Although her portrayal of an immature, ingenuous Yerma in the beginning of the play is a little distracting with its athletic hops and beauteous smiles, Silver settles down to give a solid performance with stunning interludes. The strength of Silver's performance in her final confrontation with her husband Juan (Paul O'Brien) salvages the final scene: the audience can focus its attention on Silver and try and forget the witches' coven that has convened on the right-hand side of the stage...
...love the people, I love the players," Stern said. "We have a very exciting non-stop game. We believe we have great players and solid owners. Our television ratings are up and our attendance is up. Our health is good...
...State Department finally released 196 pages of its vast stockpile. The documents did not quite represent the "smoking gun" needed to substantiate President Reagan's claim that Grenada was being transformed into a "major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy." But the papers did offer solid evidence that Grenada's Marxist government had grown increasingly reliant on its connections with Cuba, the Soviet Union and North Korea, especially for arms. Together with other documents seen by TIME last week, the State Department's trove portrays a regime obsessed with three problems: the almost total alienation...
While he was highly regarded in the field for his work in--among other topics--nuclear, solid state, and low temperature physics, the 52-year-old Martin has drifted in recent years to the administrative side of things, becoming one of the campus's principal administrators for science policy...
DIED. Frank W. Epperson, 89, concocter of the Popsicle; in Fremont, Calif. On a cold San Francisco night in 1905, eleven-year-old Frank left a glass of lemonade on his back porch and awoke the next morning to find the drink frozen solid around a spoon that was in it. Nineteen years later, Epperson patented his "handled, frozen confection or ice lollipop." Dubbed the Epsicle, it was quickly a success, but Epperson sold his patent in 1929 to a small company that changed the name to Popsicle. "I was flat and had to liquidate all my assets," he said...