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After a period as clerk for then Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Breyer moved on to congressional staff work. It was his proudest achievement there to be architect of the plan by which Congress deregulated the airline industry in 1978. He has got more mixed grades for his work as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
Fifty years after his Broadway debut, Arthur Miller is back...
Playwrights tend to burn out young, so the mere fact that Arthur Miller, 78, opened a new drama on Broadway last week, 50 years after his debut, is noteworthy. Even better, the play is good -- complex, a little mysterious, full of arresting incident, grippingly played. The bad news is that there is so little audience for serious work that its survival is, in the producer's words, "week to week." Only two new plays have had much of a run on Broadway this season, Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the second half of Tony Kushner...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...