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...shame, William Coles remarks at the beginning of Other People's Money, that more plays are not devoted to the business world. Coles, the character who serves as narrator of Jerry Sterner's play, insists that "business-people have a story to tell," one which includes "loyalty, tradition, friendship and, of course, money...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland and its sister stage in Portland form the largest U.S. regional theater. New artistic director Henry Woronicz plays Petruchio in The Shrew through September; he * directs Jerry Sterner's Other People's Money, a satire of corporate raiders, through October; both at Ashland...
Last week McCleskey again petitioned the Supreme Court. This time he sought to have his conviction reviewed on the ground that his constitutional right to counsel had been violated when the police used a jailhouse informer to obtain a confession from him; this time the court was even sterner in its rejection. In a 6-to-3 ruling, the majority said such repeated petitions as McCleskey's "threatened to undermine the integrity of the habeas corpus process." Then the court set tough new standards that severely curtail a state prisoner's ability to bring claims of violations of his constitutional...
...never faced a sterner challenge than Dick Tracy, his adaptation of Chester Gould's comic strip about the big-city detective with a right-angle jaw. Batman, the comic-strip blockbuster of 1989, had entranced moviegoers with its dark, brooding take on urban corruption. Would the brighter, perkier Dick Tracy seem of less heft? More to the box-office point, would young people want to see the movie? Who is Dick Tracy anyway? The strip runs in only about half the 550 newspapers that carried it in the Eisenhower years. And who's this Warren Beatty? He hasn...
Every generation forges its own conscience. Glory reaffirms an older, persistent moral theme in the black community that in the past 25 years seemed to go out of fashion, at least at the leadership level of the civil rights movement: self-determination, responsibility. This sterner theme, developed well before emancipation and repeated by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and generation after generation of struggling black fathers and mothers, instructed: the antidote to racism is excellence...