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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Within two days after the $3 million spectacular opened in London's West End this month, the box office was virtually sold out until early 1987. Webber and Prince have daringly envisioned Phantom not as Grand Guignol but as an opportunity to turn the musical back toward what they term romance. Ironically, Lloyd Webber (Evita) and Prince (Sweeney Todd) have been leaders in the movement to push musicals beyond traditional boy-meets-girl accessibility. Yet their Phantom is unquestionably a love story, just as much for the heroine, a baffled girl from the chorus, as for the masked enigma...
...total disarmament, he believes such a goal must be pursued with great caution. "I wish nuclear weapons had never been invented. But would I like to wake up tomorrow and find that there are no nuclear weapons? No. Nuclear arms have been a stabilizing factor. In the short term, however, we should try to reduce the armories and make the prospects for accidental war smaller...
Night was followed by several other fictionalized treatments of the Holocaust -- a term Wiesel brought into currency but which he believes has since been "trivialized and vulgarized." Moving to the U.S. in 1957, he became a hypnotic, increasingly popular lecturer and professor, first at the City College of New York and later at Boston University...
...Soviets were our staunch allies, and the thought of becoming international policemen was anathema to a nation that Harriman said wanted nothing more than to "go to the movies and drink Coke." Harriman was the only Wise Man ever elected to public office, and that was for a single term as Governor of New York. He and the other solons shuttled between Government and business, "substituting for each other," note the authors, "like lines in a hockey game changing...
...sticking point, though, is a rider to the constitution that grants Aquino a six-year term. Chief among opponents of the clause is Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, who insists that Aquino should submit to new presidential elections. Enrile argues that Aquino lost her mandate to govern when she abandoned the 1973 constitution, under which the last elections were held. Aquino counters that during last February's elections, "The people spoke so clearly, the whole world heard them." Despite Enrile's opposition, Aquino's constitution is likely to be adopted...