In 1918, "Gianni Schicchi, " a one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, was first performed at New York's Metropolitan opera.
Both graduated in 1974 and two years later reunited for his one-act play "Titanic, " with Weaver playing the Captain's daughter.
Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and screenwriter Elaine May have written three one-act plays to be shown together on Broadway later this year.
In 1995, Allen collaborated with May and David Mamet on Death Defying Acts, three one-act comedies which ran for nearly a year.
The whole thing is a little kooky, but then so is the personality at the center of this unusual one-act, biographical portrait.
With its current winter season, New York City Ballet continues to create thematic programs out of its extensive repertory of mostly one-act ballets.
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Grand secretary Brown argues that the initiations are allegorical one-act plays.
There will also be productions of Pinter's A Slight Ache - one of his early one-act plays, Strindberg's Miss Julie and Philip Pullman's Clockwork, as well as live music and comedy.
Originally conceived by composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal as a blend of genres, the original, first staged in 1912, began with a ballet-spiced play, followed by a different version of the one-act opera.
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It wasn't just self-congratulatory laughter at a high-brow joke. (OK, maybe a little.) I also had a laugh at myself: I've tried for so long to understand Philip Glass, and all it took was a one-act parody?
We have a real estate tycoon who still thinks he can be president, and New York remains a great place to write a first novel, get discovered in a one-act play, or play guitar outside in your underpants.
Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.
Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with Lynn Nottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.
But not just -- again, issues of governance, of development, of all of those things are not simply going to be decided on one -- through one act on November the 7th.
There are tons of examples of companies who have exhibited an extreme one-off act of kindness or generosity.
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"Britain's role, " he alleges, "remains an essentially imperial one - to act as junior partner to US global power".
That is the power of one -- the one act you can do to keep moving this country forward.
The governor included the measure in a package of executive budget amendments and said it wouldn't be a one-time act.
"As long as this is a one-off act of the state helping the victims, it's not going to affect the economy in a major way, but it's also not a solution for future disasters, " said Georgy Stoev, from Industry Watch.
Around the globe, news about domestic violence is neatly reported by the media, usually packaged in terms of a single incident or a one-time only act of violence.
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Their team will consist of a pediatrician, an endocrinologist, a therapist, nutritionist and multiple counselors that act one-on-one with your loved one.
It has just enough ideas to justify its narrative journey, and only enough action beats to construct a solid trailer (the film has one very strong second-act chase scene).
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And to a non-obvious one: How should we act towards someone denying a cancer-diagnosis and should we treat someone denying anthropogenic climate change any differently?
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And it was one of the principles -- the Recovery Act had many components, but one was to provide direct relief to states to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs in areas like public schools and police and fire departments.
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The requirement for senior executives to put their own signature to company accounts themselves is just one aspect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was rushed through Congress in response to the string of scandals and which is one of the most far-reaching pieces of financial legislation since Depression-era laws established the SEC almost 70 years ago.
After all, one-third of the Recovery Act we designed was made up of tax cuts for families and small businesses.
One-third of the Recovery Act was emergency relief, like increasing unemployment benefits and helping states keep teachers and police officers and firefighters from losing their jobs.
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In particular, he will make a strong case for the Patriot Act - one we can only hope the minority of Senators currently blocking its reenactment will heed.
Yet the justices granted the detainees only one specific right under Common Article 3: the right to have any criminal charges heard by a "regularly constituted court"--one created by an act of Congress.
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