Word: arching
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Uncle Vanya--the distance it puts us from the actors. Derek McLane's attractive set consists of a tall house frame, cocked at a slight angle upstage, and, to its right, a large patch of wheat and two swings that seem to reach forever up to the proscenium arch. The action after the first act is confined mainly to the house, which is towering but not very roomy, divided as it is into different levels. The actors, then, are both distant and dwarfed, surrounded by space and yet cramped; and against the purple sky of the second act, with rain...
...devotion to his work, including weeks at a time spent on the road, has nearly destroyed his relationship with his wife and young son. The movie jumps back and forth from his Greenwich Village apartment, to scenes of concert performances and travel with the band, to meetings with those arch-enemies of creativity, the record company executives...
West Virginia. Ever since his election as Governor in 1976, Democrat John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 43, has been believed to nourish hopes of entering the national political arena-but only after winning a second term as Governor. He easily defeated his Republican opponent, scrappy former Governor Arch Moore, 57, but at an eyebrow-raising cost: Rockefeller spent an estimated $9.5 million, all but $200,000 of it from his personal funds. When a final accounting is made, he may beat the gubernatorial record of $10 million spent by his Uncle Nelson in New York...
...three games that arch-rivals Harvard and Brown have played this season, last night's became the first in which one team really dominated...
They single out Gerald R. Ford--who saved himself from also-ran status by deciding to stay out of the race in the first place--as Reagan's greatest asset in the party. The former president has logged thousands of miles this fall stumping for his former arch-rival and has attacked Carter as if his own neck is on the line...