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Wilson's latest installment to the anthology takes this marriage of music and cultural history one step further by focusing on one promising blues star, Floyd Barton (Keith David), his truncated aspirations and his social life, and by framing the play itself with music ascribed to him (composed by Dwight Andrews...
...made in India-a $2.8 billion electric-power plant that Enron Corp. of Houston was building near Bombay. Enron, which broke ground in March and stands to lose $300 million if it abandons the venture, is seeking talks aimed at permitting work to resume. "This is typically Indian," says Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, which runs an Indian mutual fund. "For every three steps forward, they take two steps back...
Legal correspondent Adam Cohen says a Massachusetts ruling today may influence whether childrenmust face down people they have accused of sexual abuse in court. Superior Court Judge Robert Barton decided that Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave, both in jail since 1987, will be retried because the children they may have abused never had to face them while testifying. Courts often make allowances for children, Cohen says, but Barton's ruling, which follows five failed appeals by the women over eight years, "reflects a heightened concern about the veracity of sexual abuse charges that rely on children's testimony. People...
...face." LYDIA S. CLARY Bethesda, Maryland THANK GOD FOR ROBERT HUGHES. I have been waiting for an eternity for someone to blow out of the water the crackpot contradictions of Republican anticulturalists [COVER STORY, Aug. 7]. I wish more of us could slam with such verity and elegance. SYDNEY BARTON Chicago...
Underwater vehicles date back at least to 1620. But it wasn't until Barton's bathysphere came along that scientists could descend to any respectable depth. The Bathysphere eventually took Barton and zoologist William Beebe to a record 3,028 ft., off Bermuda. But it wasn't at all maneuverable: it could only go straight down and straight back up again. Swiss engineer Auguste Piccard solved the mobility problem with the first true submersible, a dirigible-like vessel called a bathyscaphe, which consisted of a spherical watertight cabin suspended below a buoyant gasoline-filled pontoon. (A submersible is simply...