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...Lear's daughters, while Norman is certainly meant to be understood as the Fool. But Ronald Harwood's adaptation of his own play does not force these comparisons too hard. It is perfectly possible to enjoy The Dresser simply as a backstage fable, rich in the full-tilt emotional exaggeration of plays and pictures that try to catch showfolk off guard, offstage. Or as a fairly acute study of the master-servant relationship. Or simply as an excuse to give two splendid actors (Tom Courtenay as the title figure, Albert Finney as Sir) a chance to strut their...
...James Schlesinger, who had that title again, and Clark Clifford, who played the Secretary of State. Former Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, who reluctantly wore his uniform, acted as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group was well-balanced ideologically-improbably so-but a certain tilt existed: eight of the nine players served the Carter Administration...
Toyota showed several new models, including the SV-3, its first sports car since the 2000 GT in 1967. The company's FX1 car has glassed-in roof pillars and windshield wipers hidden under a sliding shutter. The doors tilt and glide out. It also has a voice-command system similar to Nissan's. At low speeds, half the engine shuts down to conserve fuel. Toyota was also showing off the TAC3, a sporty, four-wheel-drive car in which the driver sits in the middle, with passengers behind...
...lesson in decisiveness. It would be hard to think of more fluent paint handling in current art than the set of three views of the tiled tank, named Pool, 1983. One reads it from left to right; each time the eyeline - obviously derived from handheld photos, whose careless tilt is preserved - rises a little more, so that the final image, where one looks almost straight down at the pool bottom, presents a shock like the revelation of evidence...
Things might have been different if not for the injury-enforced absence of three Crimson booters. Senior goalie Janet Judge and junior striker Alicia Carrillo have been out since the season opener, and midfielder Inga Larson joined them on the sidelines after Tuesday's tilt with UMass...