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Between Metullah in northern Israel and Nabatiyah in southern Lebanon, a winding road passes through two P.L.O. minefields. The Israelis have made no attempt to clean out the mines, a tedious and risky job that they would have to take on if they stayed. The Israelis are apt to find that Lebanon itself is a political minefield that poses ever greater dangers with each passing...
...many years the logo of the Saturday Review was a mythical bird: the phoenix, rising reborn from its own ashes. The symbolism remained apt even after the logo was dropped in 1977. During much of its 58-year life span, the "magazine of ideas," as it called itself, has lost money; since 1971 it has been sold or refinanced five times. SR has been by turns a weekly, a biweekly, a monthly; at one point it was split into four separate magazines. Over the years it shifted focus from books to popular culture to politics and science and then...
Lapine is a skillful sight gagster. His staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe play-within-the-play is a little masterpiece of smartly timed slapstick. And having his quartet of young lovers lose bits and pieces of their costumes in their befuddled woodland wanderings is an apt comic comment on the larger losses of sexually addled adolescence. Among them, Christine Baranski turns Helena into that most endearing of creatures, a beautiful woman humanized by near terminal klutziness...
...master. Different Seasons offers a dazzling display of how writing can appeal to people who do not ordinarily like to read. King uses language the same way the baseball fan seated behind the home-team dugout uses placards: to remind those present of what they have already seen. In Apt Pupil, for example, a 13-year-old boy tracks down a Nazi war criminal hiding out in his own Southern California suburb. When he confronts the fugitive, the youth is disappointed by the old man's accent: "It didn't sound . . . well, authentic. Colonel Klink on Hogan...
Reagan inspired scant confidence by using his press conference "to get a little more publicity for the American people to urge their Congressmen to adopt the constitutional amendment" requiring a balanced budget (see ESSAY). One reporter had an apt question: "[Aren't you] presiding over the biggest budget deficit in history and telling the American people, in effect, 'There ought to be a law against what I'm doing?' " Reagan insisted, fairly enough, that the big budget deficits cannot be laid solely "at an individual's door." Then he turned the question around, asking...