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...physical vigor is the least part of the morning's display. A visitor is struck more by his determined spirit. Ronald Reagan is marching on. Cancer has been found and excised, and he believes in mind and heart that he has been cleansed of the disease. There is no crack in the armor. At no time in 34 minutes of conversation does a shadow cross his eyes. The words mortality and cancer come quietly and without theatrics...
Ahead lie big battles over the budget and tax reform and the much ballyhooed summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan would have seemed a whippersnapper next to Leonid Brezhnev or Yuri Andropov, but now the comparison may cut the other way. Reagan's visitor points out that the new man in the Kremlin is young and healthy. "Yes," grins the convalescing President, "but I'll try not to take advantage...
...sympathetic nurse (Kristen Smeltzer) named Susan and a former professor of Dr. Bearing, her sole visitor (Elizabeth K. Mahoney ‘05) inject poignancy into the play with tiny gestures. In fact, Susan rubs the unconscious Bearing’s hands with lotion, while her visitor Dr. Ashford kisses the dead woman on the forehead, performing gestures that with their naturalism avoid seeming emotionally manipulative...
...Ballad of Jack and Rose had shoulders, the viewer would be shaking them sternly. Of course it will all go wrong! Jack's social skills are so rusty they might give a visitor tetanus, and Rose couldn't have a ruder introduction to her own sexuality than from the complementarily weird sons. But getting scorpions to battle in a bottle is what drama does, and the movie carries an eerie fascination as it spins out the inevitable eruptions...
...gray dust of construction clinging to his shoes, Lloyd Chao leads a visitor through one of the cavernous sound stages in the new Shaw Studios production complex, perched on a windy hillside in Hong Kong. In its heyday Shaw Bros. churned out hundreds of films for Chinese-language audiences around the world, leading an industry that, by the mid-1980s, made a city of 6 million the world's third biggest movie producer. That's when Shaw began to phase out film production in favor of TV. Though other studios filled the gap for a while, Hong Kong, which...