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...impossible to miss Irving's message, but his method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies...
...failed to carry out his directive. At the state level, Republican Governor George Deukmejian, who is also a University of California regent, did not commit himself to support a divestment either from state pension funds or from the university. But he gave divestment advocates hope, saying, "The divestment method might be a very effective tool in helping to correct the racial oppression that exists in South Africa...
...source of money and vast amusement. He is misled by most locals and never learns whether they are lying or merely find Western epistemology elusive. Barley makes every possible mistake. He selects a youthful interpreter in a culture contemptuous of the young. He talks to women, a lunatic method of gathering information, according to the Dowayo tradition. He refuses to take off his white skin at night and stubbornly remains convinced that chameleons are not poisonous but cobras...
...horse, a stage version of Alexandre Dumas's novel that James O'Neill (Eugene's father) adapted and toured in for 30 years, was just the first of Sellars' bold choices. In program notes, he proclaims that "the evening contains at least five different plays, each with its own method and tone"; cites influences as diverse as Bertolt Brecht and D.W. Griffith; and even warns patrons that "there is no seat in the house from which the entire production can be seen. After all, this isn't television...
...work, some of the added costs could not legally be passed along to the Pentagon, and the company faced possible losses. To cut down on the red ink, GE managers decided to shift the overruns to different contracts under which the Government would pay the added costs. Their method: falsifying workers' time cards without their knowledge. Investigators are still trying to determine how many people were part of the plot and how high up into the company's management ranks they go. Joseph Calabria, a chief engineer on the Minuteman project who has been indicted but has pleaded not guilty...