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Boil, boil, toil and trouble...at Jamaica Pond's One-Act extravaganza--"Sinister Acts: An Evening of Creepy Plays". Presented by the Open Door Theater, the spine tingling evening includes Larry Blamire's "The Ha'nt", Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", and Martin Epstein's "Mysteries of the Bridal Night". Performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. through August 27. Tickets are $8. Call 524-2980 for more details...
Though it is essential for the U.S. to cultivate domestic energy sources and know-how, current spending is excessive. The research-and-developme nt budgets for nuclear fission and fossil fuels could be cut by two-thirds. In addition, the U.S. should reduce funding for rural electrification and remove subsidies on the sale of federally generated power...
...Davis, who was running an artist-in-residence program there for the National Endowment for the Arts. In the mists of the future, they discovered, each could see Catamount looming small. They began to work out financing: stock sold to a few believers and a low-interest community-developme nt loan. Mason was aiming at something close to English real ale, though he knew there would have to be some touch-up carbonation to accommodate the colonials' taste for fizz. Beer drinkers in Vermont and New Hampshire, the intended markets, bought a lot of bottles and not much draft beer...
...Night in the Ukraine, Groucho lives. So do Chico, Harpo and that lady of the formidable embonpoìnt, Margaret Dumont. The program note says that this exercise in dementia is "loosely based on Chekhov's The Bear." Groucho (David Garrison) is the shysterish Samovar the Lawyer. Chico (Frank Lazarus) is a larcenous tongue-in-cheeky footman to the imperious Mrs. Pavlenko (Hewett), the Dumont role. Perfectly at ease as Harpo, Priscilla Lopez is a creature from another planet, who at one wonderfully zany moment plucks out the inevitable harp solo on the spokes of an upside-down bicycle...
...that would be wrong. There are still people who feel hurt psychologically. The two weeks after Dec. 16 [however] were the most unstable period. The stock market dropped, and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the New Taiwan dollar on the black market rose to NT $43 for $1. Domestic and foreign investors seemed to be reconsidering their investments. But it seems to us that since January the situation has improved...