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...quarterback, a dumb lineman named Bubba, an oily general manager in cahoots with the Mob) are well past sitcom retirement age. The bottom drawer in comedy's bargain basement, however, belongs to the new sitcoms showing up on basic cable. WTBS's Rocky Road, for example, set in a beachfront ice cream store, trots out juvenile plots and dialogue that make Beach Blanket Bingo look like Moliere...
...something in a novel. Bradbury calls it Death Is a Lone- ly Business, and he dedicates the work to such masters of the form as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. But The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are about as close to this beachfront vaudeville as Mars and Saturn are to Pluto (the Disney dog, not the planet). It hardly matters. All of the productions, from Something Wicked This Way Comes to The Martian Chronicles, are portions sawed from a long plank called Bradbury. Brief or full length, they bear the characteristic fine grain, knots, splinters and warps...
Egypt suspended negotiations with Israel over the status of Taba, the sliver of beachfront in the Sinai that is claimed by both countries. In Tunis, Bourguiba called in U.S. Ambassador Peter Sebastian and told him of his "profound regret and great astonishment" at the Administration's response. Summing up the reaction by moderate Arabs, one senior Western ^ diplomat in Cairo declared, "The raid is going to leave scars, a lot more than were caused by the attack on the Iraqi reactor...
...leading scientists luxuriate in secluded, heavily guarded mansions, supplied courtesy of the state. Even second-rank officials usually have a country house at their disposal. Tens of millions of their less exalted countrymen employ their wits and their blat (arm twisting and family connections) to gain entry to beachfront hotels, often located on the former estates of the prerevolutionary Russian aristocracy. Another much sought- after holiday choice for active trade-union members or people suffering from a diagnosed illness are woodsy spas known as sanatoriums. In theory, admission is by permit only, but in practice, anyone who can wangle...
...participate in the Cairo Book Fair for the first time in two years. Last month the two countries resumed negotiations over disputed border areas after nearly two years of silence. But there was a failure to resolve the major issue of Taba, a 250-acre wedge of palmy beachfront on the eastern edge of the Sinai, which is claimed by both countries. Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sounded apprehensive last week about future discussions. "I cannot say that I am satisfied with the mutuality of the effort," said Peres. Declared Mubarak: "I am asking the Israelis to be more...