Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admittedly, to produce Shakespeare's Pericles. Prince of Tyre courts disaster. The play is rarely performed and for good reason. An inane plot juxtaposes strength, integrity and innocence--embodied in three main characters, Pericles. Thaisa and Marina--with a passel of debauched and wicked malefactors. Goodness prevails in a series of circumstances and coincidences which quickly becomes a caricature of itself," this day, the play remains of questionable authorship, though a number of well-turned and colorful phrases reveal the Elizabethan Bard. Indeed, language, infages, themes and parallels occasionally redeem the play, but mostly it just sloughs along. Uncut...
...encouraged simply because the pressure is mounting for a female Vice President. "The talk of a woman on the ticket is very healthy," says Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards. "Whether it actually comes to fruition or not, it serves another purpose." That purpose: to build women's voting strength and give voice to women's issues. Already, about 40 women's rights organizations, representing 15 million women, are engaged in a national nonpartisan voter-registration drive bearing the Slogan IT'S A MAN'S WORLD UNLESS WOMEN VOTE...
...strength of the minor characters underscores the principals' shortcomings. In particular, James Walch as the indigent Ernest and Jeanette Landis as the dumpy British housekeeper deliver the bold, almost caricature personalities which the play demands. Some flawless performances by minor characters--down to Ernest's butler who, though he barely opens his mouth, creates a lively presence--are flashes of what the play might have been...
Just as no one can adequately explain the source of a parent's strength or perseverance, so no one can presume to gauge a parent's grief or fear when a child lies near death. Somehow, though, such a situation proves even more disturbing when a mother must compose a flyer that begins, "Please help this little girl live!!" The emphasis provided by the photograph of Jorie on that flyer--her wide, radiant smile stretches towards bright, clear eyes--makes the exclamation points seem almost unnecessary...
...nearly 100 percent of her energy and raw materials and over half of her food. A simply staggering amount of Persian Gulf oil flows to Japan, and it travels a long way through several easily-attacked points, Considering the volatility of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the growing strength of the Soviet navy in these areas, and Japan's value to us both as an ally and a friend, could the U.S. defend these far-flung supply routes in the event of crisis and still honor its responsibilities elsewhere? It is this concept of "stretched-thinness" that worries...