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...failed attempts at British accents and a failure to alter annoying British colloquialisms; phrases as "wind screen" instead of "windshield," "shaving foam" instead of "shaving cream" distract the audience for no purpose. Inspector Hound, moreover, at longer than an hour, begins to grate. DiPrima would have been wiser to slice out a third of the dialogue, and concentrate on the sparkling delivery of the remainder...
...zoning provision, which affects a 300-acre slice of Ward 5 in Cambridgeport, was passed as an amendment to a ``downzoning'' of the area...
Gaddafi may now find it difficult to hold onto his northern slice of Chad. The expectation is that the retreating troops will make the arduous 500-mile desert trek north to a Libyan base in the Aozou Strip, a 50-mile-wide, mineral-rich area that has been in dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact...
...suddenly hit home. Director Spike Lee, whose 1986 picture She's Gotta Have It earned $7 million on a $200,000 budget, recently caught flak from executives of Columbia Pictures, the Coca-Cola subsidiary that is distributing his current $6 million movie. Reason: Lee's lead character was named Slice, which happens to be a brand of soft drink produced by rival Pepsi-Cola. The director reluctantly changed the character's name...
...prefers political crusading, onstage and off. He and his characters have seemed to inhabit a world of clear-cut right and wrong. This personal history gives poignant impact to Miller's new one-acts, collectively titled Danger: Memory!, at New York City's Lincoln Center. One is a kitchen slice of life between elderly friends, the other a charged and almost surreal interview between a hostile police detective and the father of a murder victim. What links them is a parallel revelation: in each, a man about Miller's age admits that after basing his life on progressive principles...