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...problem, charges Roy Woodruff, the former director of weapons research at Livermore, is that Teller oversold the X-ray laser, a proposed Star Wars device under development at the lab, to President Reagan. Not only were some of Teller's statements "technically incorrect," claims Woodruff, but "the optimistic schedules proposed by Dr. Teller for deployment of an X-ray laser weapon are impossible." Woodruff's accusations have split the lab into bitter factions; they have also cast doubt on the scientific integrity of Livermore, a facility founded with Teller's support in 1952, and cast a shadow over Reagan...
Director Robert Woodruff shares the staging credit with his performers, notably the Flying Karamazov Brothers, a quintet of juggling comics who play the servants, the masters and Shakespeare himself, looking on in mounting disbelief. Nobody here is precisely acting, but Karla Burns as a lovestruck maid, Randy Nelson as a sly servant, Howard Jay Patterson as one of the masters and Sophie Hayden as his wife all appear to have -- and give -- a roaring good time. -- W.A.H...
...expect of him, perhaps the audience's reaction shows that he is just a reflection of a more general misogyny. But this cannot excuse him. The slides, presumably added as humor, gave the concert a sinister feel. A musician need not be a propagandist of rape culture. David Woodruff...
FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE Odon von Horvath's 1937 satire about an ousted dictator got a dazzling U.S. premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse near San Diego. Director Robert Woodruff interpolated sly references to the Marcos and Somoza clans, and his expressionistic staging throbbed with energy...
...still jets around the world at 88, and has outlasted several presumed heirs. After 41 years at the helm of W.R. Grace, the multibillion- dollar chemical producer, J. Peter Grace, 73, has been overseeing a major restructuring of the company and shows no signs of stepping down. Robert W. Woodruff, longtime chairman of Coca-Cola, "retired" in 1955 but remained in control of the company for an additional 25 years, well into...