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...alliance created for defense find new life by seeking détente? That issue faced the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as it met in Rome against a backdrop of leftist riots and rallies that proclaimed "Nixon, boia [Nixon, hangman]!" and "Al-Fatah vincerà [Al-Fatah will conquer]!" NATO was created in 1949 to defend Western Europe against Communist military aggression. But when the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO members met last week, they invited their Warsaw Pact opponents as well as nonaligned European countries to join with them in a search for ways to reduce tensions...
...climate has changed in the country." Hamilton said, noting the upsurge in environmental concern. "We will be fighting, against a more favorable backdrop...
...disorders had been building up for 13 months. In early 1969, a shaky coalition government took power in West Bengal, the most turbulent of India's 17 states and the one in which Calcutta lies. Since then, against a backdrop of bitter political strife stirred up by the coalition's strong Communist faction, unrest, violence and crime have been increasing. In the past year, the state has had 584 murders, one-fourth of them in Calcutta. Never the safest place on earth, the teeming metropolis of 8,000,000 has become a city of fear. Aside from...
...play is Ben Jonson's BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, a sprawling work with plot tines and characters in a dozen directions at once. It is set against the backdrop of a fair, which was the closest thing the E?zabethans had to a trip. Senelick's got to make all the pieces fit together without letting the gears lock altogether and have the whole delicate Rube Goldberg design collapse. As a comedy, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR is something of a wild creature. As the director. Senelick must find a way to cage it without killing...
...lilting show tunes by Balanchine's longtime friend, George Gershwin. The backdrop is a softly focused photo of the Manhattan skyline, suggesting the unreal city of cities in countless half-remembered Astaire musicals. The casual costumes look as if they might have dressed the working chorus in a hundred would-be Show Boats that never made it down the Hudson. Only the opening and closing numbers, Strike Up the Band and / Got Rhythm, have so far been orchestrated for a brassy pit band. The rest of the evening the dancers were accompanied by Pianist Gordon Boelzner, plunking away...