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...Language is the base of society. The alphabet is the base of language," one actor says. The theme of what language is and what role it plays in communication, in society, is vaguely developed in the show. At one point, one of the actors climbs a stool and spraypaints dots, not letters, onto a slideshow image of a crossword puzzle...
While upscale foodies have been proudly learning the gastronomic alphabet (A is for arugula, B for balsamic vinegar and C for imported chevre), mainstream America has been mounting a kitchen counterrevolution by mastering new cooking techniques like zapping and nuking. With microwave ovens now installed in three-quarters of the nation's kitchens, the U.S. is in the midst of a food upheaval that may leave taste buds as imperiled as the Panamanian drug trade...
Stateside, the authors can sometimes be plausible; once across the ocean, they veer directly into farce. The fashionable will soon be ordering their wardrobes in the Cyrillic alphabet: "Yummies -- young, upwardly mobile Marxists -- are emerging in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, imitating the clothes and music tastes of yuppies." As for international terrorism, travelers to the Middle East can loosen their seat belts: "Developing countries that succeed in preserving their cultures remain stronger and find it more difficult to justify striking out against the West." This intelligence should be a surprise to the Great Satan...
...entire country (with the exception of the military) is suffocating in a technological vacuum. According to a delegate of a U.S. computer exhibit in the Soviet Union, many Russians are amazed when they first see that a Xerox machine "knows" how to copy the Russian alphabet...
...cancer. That toll may be cut by interferon. But doctors warn that the mystery of non-A, non-B hepatitis may not be completely resolved. Type C virus could account for most of these cases, but there is evidence that yet another blood-borne virus will extend the hepatitis alphabet still further...