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ADOLESCENT REBELLION and alcoholism attack family life in the plays of Eugene O'Neill. In his tragedies, they triumph and destroy the family; in Ah, Wilderness, O'Neill's only comedy, love wins out. The family survives all threats in this blissful vision of small-town America. A son goes off for a night of debauchery; the family forgives him. Only fine, three-dimensional acting saves this story of the affectionate Miller family from cloying sweetness...
...impede them. The Pakistan government has made no attempt to close what has come to be called the "silent border" with Afghanistan and Iran. To do so would invite an insurrection as bloody as the one that engulfed Baluchistan between 1973 and 1977, when the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ah" Bhutto sought to impose the central government's authority on the province. That conflict cost the lives of 3,300 Pakistani soldiers and at least 5,300 Baluchi guerrillas. When General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrew Bhutto in 1977, he declared an amnesty and released political prisoners...
...Ah, my dears, how William Claude Dukenfield would have chuckled over the irony surrounding his 100th birthday. To mark the date, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring the Philadelphia-born comic who soared to film fame and immortality as W.C. Fields. The postmen forgot that Fields, so pinchpenny that he could name every bank in which he had an account and estimate the interest due, had willed not only his money but his name-and the attendant publicity value-to his heirs. Thus, to print the Fields stamp, the U.S. had to pay a royalty...
...Skill, well, anyone can develop skill. Ah, but The Touch...
...with open-chested shirts. Granite cocks. And then the serious stuff begins, and the music trumpets forth the coming of the commentator: "Day 78," he says, announcing the score. A bunch of angry Iranian militants beat themselves with chains, cutting to the Russians rumbling toward the free world, and ah...the graphic mushroom cloud covers the picture and the words zoom out from its heart, "America Held Hostage...