Word: vic
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...London of 1988, whose coarse argot has been chosen by Director Jonathan Miller to lend contemporary clout. The melange of cultures does not always work, although much else does in this hurtling two-hour, no- intermission staging. Yet Miller's production, which opened last week at London's Old Vic Theater, is an event of considerably broader consequence than a re-examination of an austere and little-produced play by one of the theater's ablest and most innovative directors...
...Vic for decades housed a company that emphasized Shakespeare and included some of the great British stage names of the 20th century: Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness and Ashcroft among them. Then, from 1963 to 1976, it served as the first home of Britain's National Theater. Thereafter it declined into a mere booking hall, just another space where a producer might launch a commercial production. Now Miller and the theater's owners, Toronto Businessman Ed Mirvish, 73, and his son David, 43, are seeking to bring back the glory days of the classics. Their goal: a commercial troupe to rival...
...scene in Twilight Zone: The Movie was meant to be a powerful climax: Actor Vic Morrow slogging across a river with a child under each arm as bombs exploded and a helicopter hovered overhead. Instead, the chopper crashed, killing Morrow and the two children and resulting in the first criminal trial of a film director for an accident on a movie set. Los Angeles Prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino charged Director John Landis and four others with involuntary manslaughter. After an emotional nine-month trial, the jury last week acquitted all five defendants. "The jury trial is America...
Harvard rallied for four more in the top of the second, but Northeastern bounded to a 10-8 lead in the bottom half of the inning. Dorrington, Greg Ubert and Vic McGrady all saw pitching action in the seven-run second...
Cornell's Scott Kenney singled off loser Vic McGrady (now 2-1) with one out in the eighth, driving in Dave Dase from third base to tie the game. Mark Smith followed with another single to score Joe Toscano for the winning...