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...faults of the show lie mainly in David Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost...
Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson is currently acting provost. Hyman said he hoped to assume his post as soon as six weeks from...
Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson is currently acting provost. Hyman said he hoped to assume his post as soon as six weeks from...
...Elsewhere in Washington, the Capitol building reopened Tuesday morning after a weekend of environmental testing, but the Senate and House office buildings remained closed. Both houses of Congress were back in session Tuesday. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson appeared before a House subcommittee, where he urged faster production of anthrax and smallpox vaccines. He also answered pointed questions about the CDC response to the latest pulmonary anthrax cases...
...fact, Charlotte Beers, who holds the Administration position closest to minister of propaganda, has headed the Madison Avenue firms Ogilvy & Mather and J. Walter Thompson. But ask the new Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs if she considers herself a "communications czar," and she laughs, "I hope not." Less than a month on the job, Beers has ideas for making the American case--increasing cultural-exchange programs, lining up officials to appear on Arab media and perhaps getting agencies to develop pro-American ads for Arab TV. But she has few tools at her disposal...