Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles is probably the only city in the world in which theater has been considered a lesser art form, something actors practice while they are waiting for the big break into television or movies. But now, with the enthusiasm of a convert, the city has discovered a secret the Greeks knew 2,500 years ago: there is nothing so exciting as a live performance. The nonprofit Mark Taper Forum has become a showcase for serious, innovative drama; dozens of tiny, off-off-Broadway type theaters have sprung up in the shadow of the freeways; and big Broadway producers have found...
...member nations are "behaving contrary to the logic of the Community" by reverting to nationalist, mercantilist policies. Carli described the members as divided into two camps: the protectionists and the free traders. The protectionists include France and Britain, while the free traders are West Germany and, to a lesser extent, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium...
...Richard Burton. Pop Singers Barry Manilow and Engelbert Humperdinck have two apiece. The Queen Mother got one as an 80th-birthday gift. Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, received a pair when they were married. What do these luminaries have in common? Along with thousands of lesser mortals, each has had his or her name appended to at least one star-of the heavenly kind-in what seems to be the most far-out fad since astrology...
Lintgen also draws the line at certain contemporary works, such as those of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. "That," says the doctor, "is not music." But he can spot such forbidding or lesser known compositions as Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie or Alan Hovhaness's Floating World "Ukiyo." "Those two were my best accomplishments," he says, "unless you count the time I recognized a recording of Beethoven's Fifth from across the room...
...struggle over the fiscal 1983 budget, the first version of which is due to be submitted next month, is already under way. Stockman has been urging draconian cuts in domestic programs, perhaps so Reagan can later ask for lesser, though still hefty, reductions without seeming hardhearted. Cabinet officials have begun to declare their dismay publicly and most are taking their protests to the President instead of acquiescing to Stockman's demands. Congress also is almost certain to balk. Says Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a savvy Republican on the House Appropriations Committee: "We'll not see a repeat next...