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Despite his reputation as a hard-liner, the new President immediately set a moderate tone. In his radio broadcast Ben Ali stressed the need for democratic reform, saying, "The age in which we live can no longer permit either presidency for life nor automatic succession as head of state. Our...
The two-act play consists of a series of overlapping vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter...
The peace process set in motion by the Guatemala accord has already yielded some results in Nicaragua. In a succession of gestures that the Reagan Administration has called "cosmetic," President Daniel Ortega Saavedra invited three exiled priests to return home, granted pardons to 16 imprisoned foreigners, reopened the opposition daily...
Nicest of all is a demonstration of another kind of confidence: Mamet's. Though he has written several scripts (The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables), this is his debut as a film director. He has reached out for an arresting style that is suited to both his...
IAN MCKELLEN won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Salieri in Amadeus but is best-known in his native England as one in a four-centuries-long succession of Shakespearean actors that includes Richard Burbage (the first Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello), Sir John Gielgud and Paul Scofield. The players...