Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Society scale. Most candidates in 1988 will focus wistfully on new ways to engage Government, business and labor in projects to solve problems and help people. It will never again be the all-daddy Government of the New Deal, they say, but neither will it be the shrunken Reagan version. "The swing is away from what you could call the laissez-faire approach of Ronald Reagan to one that takes a more active, compassionate approach to those in true need," says Republican Mayor William Hudnut of Indianapolis. "It is a ground swell gaining force...
...LATEST VERSION of this game has been played out over the last few months, with the grand finale occuring last week. The president failed pathetically at his last news conference in November. Unsure of himself, unknowledgable of the facts, befuddled by a press corps which asked him questions, Reagan was down again. Once again, as questions of his health surfaced, the president disappeared...
...NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship is looking eerily like the 1986 version...
...stage, and languished for five years between the French and British productions. The original creators, Composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and Lyricist Alain Boublil, owed little to French musical-theater tradition -- there isn't much of one -- and a lot to rock operas like Jesus Christ Superstar. In their 1980 version at the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports in Paris, the show ran little more than half its present length and consisted of a dozen tableaux vivants accompanied by incidental music during ponderous scene changes. A year later Mackintosh heard the record and found the score so inherently theatrical that...
...Coetzee, a widely praised South African writer (Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K), sides with the serious Crusoeites. In this terse sequel, he imagines an Englishwoman, Susan Barton, marooned on the same island with the lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore...