Word: roundabout
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Right be done" is a tenet of the English courts. Off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has done right by The Winslow Boy, which first appeared on Broadway in 1947. The "well-made play" was much in vogue at that time, and in the carpentry of artifice, Britain's Sir Terence Rattigan probably had no peer...
This admirable revival at off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater honors all concerned. Malcolm McDowell stalks the boards with the frustrated fury of a caged lion. There is a poignant dignity in Banes' Alison, a fever in the loins of Brill's Helena, and Hardie's Cliff is the sort of buddy you would want in the front lines. -T.E.K...
...awaiting their flights home, surprisingly few Muslim militants turned out for a scheduled embassy protest. But some newsmen speculated that the expulsions might presage new moves involving the hostages, such as show trials. For now, what happens in Iran will have to be gleaned by the U.S. press in roundabout fashion: placing long-distance phone calls to Iranian officials and foreign diplomats in Tehran; making arrangements with the remaining Western reporters and TV crews; monitoring Iran radio and Pars, the country's national news agency. Still, says Dick Salant, NBC'S vice chairman for news: "This...