Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's Public Theater, stage veterans gaped at the good fortune of Playwright Reinaldo Povod, 26. A product of Manhattan's turbulent Lower East Side, Povod had never before even written a full-length play. Envy turned to astonishment when Papp announced the show would star Oscar Winner Robert De Niro in his first stage effort since 1970's One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger. The seven-week off-Broadway run sold out in three hours. After Cuba began previews last month, the Public started selling tickets to overflow crowds to watch the play on closed-circuit...
...high point of the festival was the only U.S. engagement this year for the National Theater subcompany, led by Edward Petherbridge, twice a Tony nominee for roles in Nicholas Nickleby and Strange Interlude, and Ian McKellen, a Tony winner for his portrayal of the jealous composer Salieri in Amadeus. Each production in Chicago has showcased the two principals and three comparably talented colleagues, Greg Hicks, Eleanor Bron and Jonathan Hyde. The stand opened with The Duchess of Malfi in a faithfully Grand Guignol rendition of Webster's Jacobean tragedy. Actors clad in funereal black moved menacingly amid the stately...
...salvaging a 247-page novel out of 1,500 pages of manuscript. "Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god," says the amiable Virginian. What Jenks does not say is that the rules of the game require that the god must look like the winner. The Garden of Eden is, after all, what publicity departments call a publishing event. Interviews and appearances are planned for Jenks. This is a rare career opportunity for a young editor, and a delicate matter as well. He has done an excellent job, yet he must repeatedly give assurances that all the words...
...super against any exam proctor, 15 rounds, winner take all. Is "all" better than a B-plus on this exam...
Chenevey (1.74) and Ubert (2.04) were close behind Marchok in the ERA category. The team's top winner was Curtin, who won five games while losing three...