Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Next Move Theater production, directed by Peter Thompson, is well-placed, insinuatingly pleasing, and most effective in the play's most difficult areas--evoking a time and a crowd of people through only two performers, and holding an audience through two hours without an intermission and without any visual or sonic pyrotechnics. Ralph Pochoda and Maryann Plunkett define themselves against each other from the start: Pochoda's Matt is fidgety, defensive, and given to speechifying--his mouth seems to hemorrhage words. Plunkett's Sally takes a pose and holds it, folds her arms over her chest, and seems almost sullenly...
...oneBible-usually King James. Its continuing popularity is due to familiarity, as well as richness of language. Also, many special study editions of the King James offer useful cross references, indexes, explanatory articles and other "helps." The four most popular: the Scofield Reference Bible (Oxford; cheapest edition $14.95), the Thompson Chain Reference (Kirkbride; $21.95), the Open Bible (Thomas Nelson; $21.95) and the Ryrie Study Bible (Moody...
Still, Boorman provides some dazzling images: Uther riding across a sea of dragon's breath: a bizarre scene that crosscuts an act of adultery with the gruesome death of the betrayed husband: Perceval, hanging, nearly dead, as his Other Self reaches for the Holy Grail. Alex Thompson's garish cinematography gives every scene a fantastical fiery glow and Anthony Praff's production design is, by inappropriate turns, marvelous and ridiculous. For instance, most of his medieval castles have a finely detailed primordial look, but his contrast to these palaces, the new and civilized Camelot, is a high-tech Xanadu full...
...Mettler, 57. As a young aeronautical engineer working for Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. in the 1950s, Mettler supervised the development of Pioneer I, the first satellite launched by a private firm. He is now chairman of TRW, the aerospace and automotive giant that resulted when Ramo-Wooldridge merged with Thompson Products. Mettler heads the Roundtable's employment task force...
...flimsy substance of it is a reshaping of the 1942 Hepburn-Tracy film. Instead of a journalistic pundit patterned on Dorothy Thompson (Hepburn's role), Tess Harding (Bacall) is now a TV panjandrum a la Barbara Walters. Tracy's no-non sense sportswriter, Sam Craig, has be come a syndicated cartoonist (Harry Guardino) whose creation, Katz, is a kind of common man's alley cat sociologist...