Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American Ballet Theater has mounted a new production that finds an admirable solution. The Sleeping Beauty is, after all, an ample work with a variety of roles and many interwoven elements. It need not be, and probably should not be, a star vehicle. A.B.T.'s version, which was introduced on tour and will open the company's season at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House next week, is a lively, intelligently conceived Beauty, performed with panache by mostly young dancers in superb form. They have mastered the steps, and the mime and the manners too. Four women have already...
...stations in and around San Francisco will have access to counter-top DriverGuide units, which can calculate the shortest route between any two addresses in the Bay area and print out a concise set of directions. Later this year, DriverGuide will also become available in a smaller, dashboard version...
...more secular note, the pseudo-philosophers expounded on their version of life's most probing questions. What is justice? The meaning of life? The purpose behind graffiti...
...HOUSE or Representatives struck a highly commendable stand in favor of higher education last week when it passed a budget that aims to increase funding for education programs by $2.2 billion. Against this background it is particularly galling that Senate support for its scaled-down version of the House increases is tenuous at best...
...consists of four reminiscences about Francis Hardy (Ben Evett), an itinerant Irish faith healer whose ministrations actually succeed from time to time. Hardy, his wife Grace (Rebecca Clark), and his manager Teddy (Linus Gelber) recall his life, culminating in a disastrous return tour to Ireland. Each character gives his version of the events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story and film Rashomon, their accounts do not quite measure up with each other. Playwright Brian Friel, who is undergoing an inexplicable vogue among the Harvard thespian set, handles the theme of religion as a divine...