Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with its 30-member cast in, say, the basement of Adams House. Director Nestor Davidson makes good use of the large stage, both visually and spatially. The set seems accurate in its frugality, focusing attention on the players and not the stage--though Davidson does sneak in some impressive special effects. In one scene, for example, alleged heretics are literally noosed onstage while other characters examine the famed erections of the hanged...
...advice for George Bush or the pundits who have already given him this election. While neither was looking, Mike Dukakis has been busy preparing for what may be the coup of the campaign. Barring any last minute glitches or changes of heart he will appear on a special 90 minute edition of ABC's Nightline tonight, alone. Bush refused ABC's offer to appear together with Dukakis. For Dukakis, who has come out of the second debate slipping fast in the polls, all of this could not have come at a better time...
...Route 51 in central Illinois one afternoon at 3:30 and sweeping up to the Del Monte canning factory. The press corps (numbering some 120 now) dutifully takes its place not far from enormous piles of corn that are being dumped onto the vast concrete acreage, then pushed by special dozers toward the trench that will catch the corn on conveyer belts and carry it with a kind of clanking Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory to its fate. So much corn has an unexpected rich...
Shawcross ferrets out a wealth of political, diplomatic and intelligence detail, as well as a fragrant cache of jet-set gossip. In his prime, the Shah had a special yen for Lufthansa hostesses but also entertained a variety of lovelies flown in from Mme. Claude's in Paris. His other tastes were rich, but, oddly, Iran's leading personage did not eat caviar...
...Dove did for the trail-driving cowboy: re-creates a brief but indelible period as horse-opera bouffe. But the Billy book does something more. Through Ben Sippy, dime novelist and later a scenarist for western movies, McMurtry confects a folklore about the making of folklore. By adding his special glow to long- forgotten pulp fiction and the advent of a machine that projects our fantasies, he answers the fundamental question, Why would a nation that strongly believed in its manifest destiny enshrine in its legends a nihilistic punk who had no future...