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Rubinstein and Frelich do their best to make this plausible, and their ensemble work is wondrously skilled. So is the adept and imaginative direction of Gordon Davidson, at whose Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles this drama originated. Phyllis Frelich is actually deaf, and her presence on the stage of the Longacre Theater may be a Broadway first...
...goal is to improve each time, but the "streamlined" feeling created by the removal of hair lessens with each shave. The hair simply hasn't grown back. On the other hand, neither of the first shaves were accompanied by a total taper (ten days or so of almost complete rest when practices consist of minimal yardage while working on race-pace and details like starts, turns and finishes...
...million complex is an unusually solid marriage between architect and artist. Theater Consultant Gordon Davidson, director of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, worked on details for six years with Architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo. The result of all that planning, says Artistic Director Edward Payson Call, can only be compared to a wonderful playpen for directors, who can use dramatic concepts impossible in many other places...
...Threepenny Opera dwells in a totally different realm from The Saga of Jenny of Lady in the Dark with lyrics by Ira Gershwin ("Jenny made her mind up when she was three/ She, herself, was going to trim the Christmas tree./ Christmas Eve she lit the candles -tossed the taper away./ Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas...
...enough to cheer about. Recessions are usually slow to take the steam out of prices, and a tight money policy requires months to produce results. In fact, high interest rates will continue to add to inflation until they start to curb overall demand, and then prices are expected to taper off. Despite rising unemployment, wages and benefits stand to accelerate. They increased about 8% this year, or much less than the rate of inflation, and workers can make a strong case for more, just to catch...