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...Soviets skirmish with the Chinese over boundaries, the Vietnamese annihilate a Communist regime in Cambodia, and now the Chinese attack the Vietnamese in retaliation for the Cambodian war [Feb. 26]. How can the various Communists expect the rest of us to believe that their type of government represents the apex of sociopolitical evolution when they can't tolerate each other...
...veritable desert, in the Owens Valley, just the other side of Trail Crest. But expectations are a mistake, especially when they are unreasonable and almost hallucinogenic. At the sign that pointed the summit direction, different and farther than the pass itself, there was still more uphill while at the apex between uphill and downhill there was no sun. Nor was there any sign of Adrian in front or Johnnie behind...
...departure day. The price: $299 round trip New York-London, vs. $764 for regular economy class. Or, for the same price, the passenger can buy a ticket on the day of departure and "stand by," hoping for a seat. The peril: none may be available. The second is APEX (Advanced Purchase Excursion), which must be bought three or four weeks in advance. The price: $399. The advantage: a confirmed reservation. Domestically, there is an absolute plethora of fares. The Big Four?United, American, TWA and Eastern?all offer a Super Saver fare that cuts 30% to 50% off regular economy...
Fuse these qualities at their apex and you get an O'Casey. Even a lesser Irish dramatist like Hugh Leonard can be uncommonly rewarding. Da, now at Manhattan's Hudson. Guild Theater, means dad. The play is a fencing match with the ghosts of the past. The blood drawn is palpably human, the wit, parried and thrust, strikes sparks of continuous and sometimes quite unexpected humor. Says the father in Da of his late wife: "She died an Irishwoman's death-drinking tea." The laughs crop up like that, not as explosions but implosions, deeply rooted...
...does not help resolve moral conflicts, of course; it just exploits them. Family aside, the Tuesday night hits encourage viewers of all ages to think of adolescence as the apex of human emotional development. Yet if ABC's shows are junk-as a CBS executive once labeled them-they are frequently far better than the junk on the other two networks. To see why, one need only look over at various knockoffs. On CBS, for example, a new show, On Our Own, and an old series, Rhoda, are both trying to emulate Laverne & Shirley-right down to the opening...