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HUGHIE is a one-act, 65-minute postlude to The Iceman Cometh and Eugene O'Neill's obsessive theme that truth kills and the lie of illusion nourishes life. In a performance of consummate skill, Jason Robards does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in lesser plays -he lays his life on the lines...
...Hickey the hardware salesman peddled illusions in Iceman, Erie Smith (Jason Robards) the gambler is parched for illusions in Hughie. For more years than he dares to remember, he has been playing against the house, and the house is life. Life plays with stacked cards and loaded dice, and O'Neill, almost alone among U.S. playwrights, can make this simple self-pitying cliche sound like a fresh and bruising truth...
After Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh, it is scarcely news that Jason Robards and O'Neill are incomparable stagemates, or that Robards possesses consummate skills. He shuns Ivy League gentility, and he has never pretended to be a T-shirted slob-esthete who fusses with the Meth od. He belongs to an older and solider breed, the man in actor's clothing. He does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in this lesser play-he lays his life on the lines...
...From Jason's Argo to the America's Cup winner Constellation, good ship architecture has always depended heavily on intuition. But feel-of-the-sea design is increasingly tested and checked by the complex sciences of fluid dynamics and molecular stress. Nowhere in the U.S. are ancient skills and new techniques taught more tautly than at New York's Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, a Long Island college whose 70 students get room, board, books and tuition free, and almost always wind up at the top of their profession...
...rotor blades deepest inside the engine. These blades are the first to loosen and break free, and when this happens it may mean a complete engine overhaul at a price of $25,000 or more. "Using the isotopic inspection method," says Eastern's System Director of Quality Control Jason Koesy, "we've already caught 14 rotor blades that had begun to work their way loose." Isotopic inspection, which costs as little as five hours and $20 per engine, has already saved Eastern more than $70,000 in maintenance costs. Other airlines are beginning to follow suit...