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...devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that has already ceased to exist. Alan Howard plays the inventor, Gemma Jones (PBS's Duchess of Duke Street) his wife, and Jenny Agutter their servant. If plans work for bringing the show to Broadway, they ought to be imported as well...
...Senator Alan Simpson's immigration reform and control bill is in fact an anti-Mexican, employer-harassing measure. True reform and control would allow Mexicans to visit the U.S. legally for short terms. Such visiting workers are an essential source of labor in the U.S. for jobs shunned by Americans. Their earnings help to alleviate the economic distress of their families in Mexico, and they provide that country with much needed dollars for international trade. E. Manning Giles San Antonio
...buttons, the one on top labeled "Launch" and the one beneath it "Lunch." Alex Grey, in 1980, painted Nuclear Crucifixion, an oil on linen reminiscent of Matthias Grünewald's painting in the 16th century, except here Jesus is crucified in a mushroom cloud. Michael Smith and Alan Herman produced a mixed-media work in 1983 called Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar, a survivalist food counter for the prudent nuclear family, equipped with provisions and three stools. In 1981 Robert Morris created a huge work for the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, titled Jornada del Muerto, after the site...
...Jersey episode assumed heroic proportions when Middlesex County Prosecutor Alan Rockoff reported that the youths, in addition to carrying on other mischief, had been "changing the positions of satellites up in the blue heavens." That achievement, if true, could have disrupted telephone and telex communications on two continents. Officials from AT&T and Comsat hastily denied that anything of the sort had taken place. In fact, the computers that control the movement of their satellites cannot be reached by public phone lines. By week's end the prosecutor's office was quietly backing away from its most startling assertion...
...whites would consider power sharing, and fully expect to live some day in an integrated society. Says Slabbert, the 45-year-old Afrikaner liberal who heads the Progressive Federal Party: "I think Afrikaners are now more willing to explore possibilities of coexistence, and that is definitely a new development." Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country and onetime leader of the now defunct Liberal Party, says, "The tide has turned. There are some people who expect that we're going to go from low tide to high tide in two years' time. But I have absolutely no doubt...