Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoffman carefully modulates his five scenes, using familiar but effective gestures: the shy grin, the hunch of the shoulders, the sudden stare, the deliberate monotonous thud to denote anger. His performance, anything but a star turn, is intelligent, confident and touching. Hoffman brings to mind his ingratiating Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman or, even more strongly, his film work in Straw Dogs as a quiet man driven beyond endurance into mayhem. The show never stints on the virulent anti-Semitism of Shakespeare's world, although Hall employs subtle staging and lighting cues to mollify modern spectators' disquiet...
...blobs of the corona, containing billions of tons of hot gas, occasionally burst free, shooting into space at speeds as high as 2 million m.p.h. And the earth's upper atmosphere, pummeled by solar particles, is laced by electrical currents of as much as a million amperes. These in turn create powerful magnetic fields that raise havoc below...
Activists have become more sophisticated and effective in their protests. When Michigan homemaker Terry Rakolta was offended by Fox Network's raunchy Married . . . With Children, she threatened the program's advertisers with a boycott. The sponsors in turn pressured the fledgling network, which toned down its show. Animal-rights groups singled out the Draize test, in which dyes are injected into rabbits' eyes, in their effort to persuade the cosmetics industry to cut down on animal testing. Last week Avon Products announced that it would stop such experiments. Even Ralph Nader, the quintessential business basher, has adopted a more moderate...
...like braggadocio rap with a twist of rap love, then Walking Like a Panther will not disappoint. However, if you want less boast and more substance, turn to Public Enemy, De La Soul or even Shinehead...
Tennis is tingling with new possibilities -- his and hers. American Michael Chang and Spaniard Arantxa Sanchez turn Paris into a dance for 17-year-olds...