Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with and easy material to mess up. Fortunately, Jonathan Tolins' directing keeps an unstructured, multi-faceted play extremely coherent. Oleson and Clark are strong centers to a strong cast where even those playing minor roles are impressive--in particular, Mary Beth Hewitt as the grace-under-pressure and deadpan stage manager...
Because the suit is still in the "discovery"stage--during which attorneys marshall evidence inthe case--no ruling has been made on thediscrimination issue. Lawson said that because ofthe missing documents, a trial date may be monthsaway...
...accepted the Soviet package, though I am skeptical about whether SDI can be the ultimate defense screen. What America's allies need to know is exactly what the Administration's intentions are about SDI. What is it supposed to be? If it is a bargaining chip, then at some stage it can and should be used. If it is a crucial part of our defense, then I think we really need to know more about how it's going to do that and what the implications are for the future of nuclear weapons. In any case, progress on other aspects...
...government of State President P.W. Botha has ordered reprisal raids into countries that harbor guerrillas; negotiated security arrangements with Mozambique and Swaziland, designed to clear out A.N.C. fighters; and even stage-managed a coup in Lesotho, aimed at dislodging A.N.C. bases. After a series of raids last May, the President told Parliament, "South Africa has the capacity and the will to break the A.N.C. I give fair warning that we fully intend doing...
Gorbachev set the stage for the grim Sunday denouement on Saturday morning when he plucked a typewritten page from his briefcase. The paper summarized his wide-ranging set of new proposals, including cutting the strategic arsenals of both sides by 50% and eliminating intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) from Europe altogether. Gorbachev called for ten more years of strict adherence to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, a provision that would prevent SDI from producing "weapons of any new type which would provide military superiority to that side." He also made clear that the missile cutbacks were linked to curtailment...