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...aircraft-industry executives do not view the new European entries as seriously diminishing their share of the non-Communist world's aircraft market; American planemakers hold 95% of the commercial market, which is expected to generate sales of $150 billion during the next ten years. But they do bemoan their lack of fresh ideas; nothing new was displayed by the U.S. at the 1973 Paris Air Show, which is considered the aviation showcase of the world. (Instead, U.S. aircraft companies simply revised existing designs.) Yet even with the A300B, the MRCA and many other entries by the British...
THEATER CRITICS HAVE found it rewarding recently to bemoan the lack of innovative, intriguing, entertaining, or even humorous dramatic productions. Unfortunately, Dunster House's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Sawdoes nothing to challenge this prevalent conception of the state of contemporary theater...
...GROUPS bemoan their lack of sex, they ogle the neighboring exceptions, the happily wedlocked without the ritual--the couples who bring special coffee to breakfast, grim-faced and silent, hugging each other's company like a bad habit--and then back away as if from a scary "No Trespassing" sign. One brand of psychological androgyny shudders at another more extreme form, the two becoming...
...Jack Scott may believe that "you shouldn't feel badly just because you lose" and Dave Meggyesy may bemoan the "incredible racism" and "dehumanizing conditions, violence and sadism" of pro football [May 24], but the overwhelming evidence seems to indicate that the team that is emotionally "up" for the game is the one that wins, not the one whose players' identity crises have been solved and whose civil rights have been observed. Those who opt for a career in professional sports must face the hard fact that their highly inflated salaries are paid for by the people...
...people in this work do not bemoan their pathetic fates; they swallow the never-ending bits of bad news and go on, only to be rewarded sporadically with tiny, almost imperceptible, triumphs. The largest of these victories over rotten circumstances belongs to the shy daughter. Tillie, who successfully mounts a science fair project dealing with the effects of radiation on the growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into...