Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government pursued its prosecution with immense care and zeal, for more was at stake than the fates of a pair of inept spies. The trial, which ended in the colonial courthouse in Alexandria, Va., last Friday, set the stage for the testing of a crucial constitutional question: whether a U.S. President can order wiretaps without a judicial warrant in cases involving national security...
DIED. Duncan Grant, 93. the last survivor and "court painter" of the celebrated Bloomsbury group of London-based intellectuals, which included Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes; in Aldermaston, England. Greatly in demand as a decorator. Grant also designed for the stage and was a postimpressionist painter of some renown...
...economy in midspring is much more robust than the experts had anticipated it would be, but the old devil of inflation is tougher than ever. The economy may well be approaching a stage where new inflationary bottlenecks will appear. Shortages of skilled labor are cropping up; the amount of overtime is running close to that of 1973, when plants were operating at close to full effective capacity. Considering that, most members of the board favored a reduction in Carter's proposed $25 billion tax cut. Noted Okun: "What looked to me like a reasonable fiscal policy in December...
What is mainly appealing about Reynolds' work in The End is his sheer gallantry. He allows his co-stars to up stage him; he lets one actress, the wonderful Kristy McNichol (of TV's Family), steal the movie in a minor role. That is the kind of generosity audiences expect from Reynolds, but when he directs again he should cut it out. As the chaos of The End indicates, overly nice film makers finish last...
...complained bitterly: "I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It was not as though I wanted to write them." Compulsively, he kept on. Not until age 47, when Waiting for Godot created a sensation on the Paris stage, did Beckett escape a hand-to-mouth existence...