Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...match started on a previously unfamiliar note, as all six singles slots swept their opponents to render the doubles results inconsequential...
MALFI DOESN't EXIST in this production of The Duchess of Malfi. The turgid program note warns that Webster's seventeenth-century tragedy is a "waking dream." An empty lavender platform represents the ducal palace of Malfi; in Laura Shiels and Cynthia Raymond's stylized production, this psychological drama could take place anywhere or anytime within one's imagination. Shiels and Raymond interpolate dance and mime into the story to indicate the tensions beneath the Renaissance rhetoric. A veil hangs at the back of the stage, behind which a "Duchess of Imagination" flirts while the real Duchess in front disclaims...
With the rise of "prosumerism" and more interesting work, Toffler reports, a "personality of the future will be born." This 11-page discussion ends on a cheery note. "We shall create not a utopian man or woman who towers over the people of the past...but merely, and proudly, one hopes, a race--and a civilization--that deserves to be called human." These new human beings, in turn, will engage increasingly in minority politics, necessitating a change in the Constitution, which Toffler chummily outlines in a letter addressed to "The Founding Parents." The new race will get more...
...known only as Guthrie sets out to avenge his colleague. The task might be insuperable, save for the superable Marie-Christine Lemarchand, an elegant young Parisienne who had been the hit man's sometime mistress. She provides Guthrie with a psychological profile of the killer and some cryptic notes he has left in the safe of her boutique. The author polishes plots and plans until they shine. Guthrie follows the assassin's trail to Zurich. There he learns that Grand Slam is controlled by a pillar of the Swiss banking establishmenta Soviet spy for 40 years...
...same problem undoubtedly troubles Lewis Orde and Bill Michaels, co-authors of The Night They Stole Manhattan (Putnam; 334 pages; $11.95). After all, as they note, this is "the most audacious hijacking of all time." (British readers might disagree.) It also involves "the biggest ransom in history": a cool billion plus a jumbo jet for the surviving perpetrators. In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds. A few well-planted bombs all too easily close train and subway access; destruction of six major bridges and four tunnels completes the island's separation from...