Word: willies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife's. Domesticity triumphs when the wife changes costumes, wigs and personalities to deflate the husband's romantic notions. Director Bliss Hebert wittily stages the action with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind of production that Schoenberg's reputation could use more of. Even the sort...
Within 48 hours, though, the West German Olympic Committee, after four hours of heated nationally televised debate, voted 59 to 40 to keep German athletes out of Moscow. Committee Chairman Willi Daume grumbled that "a nonpolitical group has been forced to make a political decision," and he was right. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had made it clear in dozens of public statements how the Bonn government wanted the vote to turn out. Moreover, polls showed that about 80% of West Germans backed the boycott, while polls in France showed 70% opposed...