Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uniquely American ritual. A concerned and curious citizenry gathers in an electronic version of a Colonial town meeting to watch their elected representatives grill Government officials, high and low, about a sorry episode in contemporary history. The viewing can be painful yet mysteriously exhilarating, boring at times yet somehow fascinating. It is an odd self- flagellation, but out of it can emerge a catharsis. The Government's secrets are exposed, its actions explained, condoned or condemned. The issue is faced. The nation moves...
...Dolls is blessed with catchy, danceable music by Frank Loesser, and the K-house production doesn't let it go to waste. Combining the strong singing voices, the lively comic wit of the four lead actors and the enthusiasm brought by the actors in the smaller roles, this version of the frequently revived show shines at virtually every moment...
...widely been regarded as dated. But this year it has enjoyed two exceptional revivals, a PBS production starring James Whitmore and a staging by New Haven's Long Wharf Theater that opened on Broadway last week. Both demonstrate that it is a timeless story of self-delusion. The Broadway version, directed by Arvin Brown, evokes an America struggling to believe in itself. At center stage are an old hand, Richard Kiley, as the machine-shop boss, and a stunning newcomer, Jamey Sheridan, as the son who has always sort of known about, but never allowed himself to acknowledge, his father...
...farm economy. The difference is that second-tier candidates are all vying for the support of organized labor, which is unflinching in its protectionist fervor. That is why Gephardt stands to gain from the trade fight in Congress. Labor is unlikely to forget that Hart strongly opposed an earlier version of the Gephardt amendment when he was in the Senate. His detailed proposals on trade, which range from modifications in the antitrust laws to a new international accord on exchange rates, are still ideas in search of a constituency. Yet even Hart sometimes yields to the siren song of playing...
...things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog. Alcohol abuse, infidelity and a numbing lack of faith lie just beneath the bright madras and sturdy poplin...