Word: tapering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHERE: MARK TAPER FORUM, LOS ANGELES...
...nobility spent its waking hours battling foes to preserve its prerogatives, the clergy chanting prayers for the salvation of souls, the serfs laboring to feed and clothe everyone. Night, lit only by burning logs or the rare taper, was always filled with danger and terror. The seasons came and went, punctuated chiefly by the occurrence of plentiful church holidays. The calendar year began at different times for different regions; only later would Europe settle on the Feast of Christ's Circumcision, Jan. 1, as the year's beginning...
...sons. That terrain is revisited touchingly if without revelations in UNFINISHED STORIES, which retraces a classic immigrant generational cycle: from unyielding tradition to relentless assimilation to fervent rediscovery of old ways. Earnestly written by Sybille Pearson and meticulously staged by artistic director Gordon Davidson for Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, the show stars Joseph Wiseman, Hal Linden, Christopher Collet and Fionnula Flanagan. The title refers to interrupted anecdotes that are a metaphor for how families live together yet alone. Alas, it is the sole hint of subtext amid the unpondered grit of divorce, old age and death...
...strong possibility, since many economists doubt that the recovery will have much staying power. They contend that unseasonably warm winter weather artificially boosted housing and stimulated consumer spending. At the same time, they note, Administration gimmicks like the acceleration of federal payments to veterans and health-care facilities will taper off sharply this fall. "Most likely the economy will worsen again later this year or in early 1993," write David Levy and S. Jay Levy of the Jerome Levy Economic Institute at Bard College. "Unfortunately, the positive effect of these stimulative actions will be short-lived and give...
From moonlit skirmishes between pioneers and Cherokee to daylight thievery by speculators and tame judges, from Civil War marauders to union-busting goon squads, from the last gasp of industrial fever to the fresh air of environmentalism -- Robert Schenkkan's THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, aspires to no less than a history of the U.S., spanning two centuries in seven hours. If his view of the past is cruel, his factual grounding is solid. But what makes the work so hauntingly memorable is a poetic impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines...