Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is the short version of a successful shopping period: Narrow classes according to interest, and then consider difficulty. Yet this necessary step to an enjoyable semester is not a sufficient one. Smaller, but not unimportant, factors come into play as well. The obvious one is the time your class day will begin. Good courses (excluding introductory level math, science and language) are hard to come by before 11 a.m., a time which seems reasonable. If not, well, that's a personal problem...
...class reads three works by Kundera, in addition to screening the film version of his The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Other authors featured include Josef Skvorecky and Czech President Vaclav Havel...
Comden and Green, who were in the Central Park audience on opening night, know that On the Town is no museum piece. For the 1949 film version, they replaced most of Bernstein's brassy score with more razzmatazzy tunes. But Wolfe has jettisoned Robbins' choreography for dances by Eliot Feld that don't buoy the production; they give it stretch marks. Better to cut these and let the show soar as an all-out musical comedy...
...stop supporting terrorism, halt its attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and tone down its opposition to the Arab-Israeli peace process. White House officials say they're monitoring the performance of newly inaugurated Iranian President MOHAMMED KHATAMI for favorable signs. It's all part of a modern version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Great Game"--the 19th century competition between Russia and Britain for influence in Central Asia. Today the prize is access to the Caspian Sea's pool of 200 billion bbl. of oil. But tapping that will require construction of the pipeline network. The U.S. hopes...
...Even without their version of Hal, the crew has enough oxygen and food for the moment. And the docking, performed manually by new commander Anatoly Solovyov, was successful. That, at least, is an improvement...