Word: succeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition," Chun last week said he could not deal with a party unable to "resolve its own internal problems through dialogue." Critics charge that the president encouraged the divisions, negotiated only to set up a democratic facade, and would allow no one other than one of his supporters to succeed...
...book's publication is due in large part to Rybakov's patience. Says he: "Twice before, in 1966 and 1978, it was announced that this book would be published. Both times it was stopped. This time I believe it will succeed." For all those 20 years Rybakov rejected offers to publish it in the West despite the frustration of repeated rejection by Soviet authorities. "My people and my country need this novel," he says. "It must be published at home before it is published abroad...
Spell 7 tries to be too much. It not only wants to be political and poetic, but entertaining as well. That the Mather House production fails to be all three is not surprising. Director Benston & crew do succeed, though, in creating a compelling statement about the the latent racism that perpetuates stereotypes and keeps Black actors in condescending Black roles...
SENIOR David Lee bills Them, his blessedly short one act, as "a race-reversal play." Set in Savannah, Ga. in the 1950's, it attempts to confound our old notions of Black and white. That's a fine ambition, but all Lee and his small cast succeed in doing is reversing some flimsy stereotypes and confounding the audience with an unimpressive production...
...wardrobe which the part requires, nonetheless gives a spotty performance. In some scenes, she performs with passionate intensity; in others, particularly the opening scene, she delivers her lines with remarkable flatness. Morris fails to convey the difference between being cold and being unemotional. But she does succeed in capturing the play's bitter spirit, in drawing the audience into the problems of the relationship...