Word: wrighting
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan yesterday accused House Speaker Jim Wright of talking indiscreetly about U.S. intelligence secrets but stopped short of denying Wright's claim that the administration used the CIA to foment civil unrest in Nicaragua...
...Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh had their passion for flying ignited by successful model planes. Astronaut John Glenn bought 10 cents Comet kits more than a half-century ago, and the flimsy model planes he built launched him into space. Baugher, too, has a real-life side to his hobby: he is one of the few professional flyers of radio-controlled small aircraft. Baugher works for the AAI Corp., which does high-tech, often secret work on drones, those unmanned aircraft that may someday patrol the skies guided by electronics from distant command posts. Pursued in his off-hours...
...Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington has been a godsend to the modelers who search for authenticity. Before the Smithsonian developed its library filled with plans, statistics and helpful researchers, hobbyists had to dig for the data themselves. That often proved difficult. Between the Wright brothers' first flight and World War II, literally thousands of planes were designed and built in small shops and barns, only to plunge into obscurity nearly as fast as they were launched. Scale modelers are especially eager to resurrect these relics...
...vision of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, stressing its social-class conflicts, first seen at Arena Stage in 1986. The other is the U.S. premiere of Pravda, a 1985 London hit about the takeover and corruption of serious news media by a tycoon whom critics likened to Rupert Murdoch. Wright is looking forward to them confidently. "Thanks to the long and rarefied history of the repertory at this theater," he says, "the audience is much better educated than average about the literature of the stage and eager to embrace demanding and sophisticated work...
Artistic Director Garland Wright fills the Guthrie' s "gladiatorial space" with bold, striking shows. A case in point: his new Hamlet...