Word: toronto
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...touching on the same family, has just finished a run in Chicago, and Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, had a splendid production starring Tom Hulce at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum in 1988. Walker's work certainly travels. Although Escape was originally set in Toronto, Lewis' staging makes it feel entirely American, from the opening moment, when a battered TV onstage starts blaring The Donna Reed Show, to the snarling climax, when at least four people are pointing weapons at one another...
...Markel '95, a Crimson editor, still thinks Toronto's a great place to grow up, but he wouldn't want to visit...
David S. Friedman '93 and David J. Kennedy '93 competed against 13 other debate teams--defeating teams from Australian National University, Hart House of the University of Toronto and Macquarie University of Sydney--to become the 1993 World Champions...
...Giants tried to move to Florida, then stayed put. Commissioner Fay Vincent tried to move the Chicago Cubs to another division, but instead the owners moved him out of his job. So it was apt that the "national pastime" look elsewhere for its "world champions." Canada's team, the Toronto Blue Jays (with, O.K., a roster of imported players), defeated the Braves in a six- game palpitator of a World Series...
Despite all those challenges, the panelists agreed, the outlook for Canada in the years leading to 2000 compares very favorably with that of other industrialized nations. William Thorsell, editor in chief of the Toronto-based Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, pointed out that Canada is enjoying record merchandise exports to the U.S., a performance that is likely to improve further with the recent weakness of the Canadian dollar. Canada is becoming lean and productive, he said, predicting that "we could have by mid- decade a strongly reviving economy...