Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here come Amlin Gray, play-wright-in-residence of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Daniel Stern and Bob Gunton, a pair of young actors; and Carole Rothman, co-artistic director of the Second Stage, an off-off-Broadway company lodged in a 16th-floor penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. And lo, Viet Nam lives in Gray's nightmarishly funny vaudeville. A Buddhist monk sets himself ablaze; an Army lieutenant is shot in the back by his troops; a B-52 crashes in enemy territory; a Viet Nam village falls to guerrillas; Saigon orphans...
...beleaguered nation of Amboland welcomes a new recruit in the first years of its civil war: an innocent young reporter from Dubuque (Daniel Stern). This Candide in khaki enters the war as a neutral observer. He believes that "if I just keep my eyes open, I can understand the whole world." He soon enough does, to his sorrow, and with the help of a dozen soldiers and civilians he meets along the Via Dolorosa. Half of them are Americans, half Ambolanders; three are women. (All are played by Bob Gunton.) These "historical events" serve as avatars and parodies...
...creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a gleam; A Cadillac in chrome was riding forth, Pulled by a twelve-man transition team. "What can this mean?" asks Bok of his stern guide, Who answers thus in Slavic-sounding voice: "This year a new man takes the Yuletide ride, Delivering gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns and asks, "Who are you--Don't tell me you're a share-the-wealth type!" The guide turns east, stares into...
...ranking bureaucrats they had expected. Sales made at the show were a small $21 million, and contracts for $3.8 million more were under negotiation at the close of the fair. Grumman International, for example, displayed buses, fire engines and light aluminum trucks, but it received no orders. Said Burt Stern, Grumman's senior vice president: "We found little overt interest in our products. We know it takes time, and we hope that some of the information we gave out will drift back into the right places. Maybe something will happen from there." Still, Chinese curiosity about American products...
...principal had a stern warning for English Teacher Cyril Lang: the books he was teaching were not approved for tenth-graders by the school system's curriculum experts. Some parents had complained as well. But Lang went right on using the books in his classes at Charles W. Woodward High School in the plush suburb of Rockville, Md. Lang even based exams on them. School Superintendent Edward Andrews took that as "insubordination and misconduct in office." Last October he asked that Lang be suspended without pay, a request that the Montgomery County School Board last week began to consider...