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...will gain 14 congressional seats at the expense of the Northeastern and North Central states. The accuracy of these samplings raises another question: Why should the nation bear the expense and bother of a decennial head count at all? Experts generally agree on the need for the census. Says Ben Wattenberg, of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank: "At some point in this whole statistical system, somebody has got to do a count. Nothing else works unless you have a base number that you can actually, physically verify." The long and arduous effort to obtain this base...
...Before Television, studios followed the Ben Hur route: General Lew Wallace wrote the book, it became a bestseller, MGM bought the property and transformed it into big box office. In the decades A.T., film companies learned to acquire novels before publication-particularly if the author was a known quantity, like Irving Wallace or Jacqueline Susann. Publishers also learned to produce prose spin-offs-novelizations of hit movies. The current flood includes Alien, The Rose and Star Wars...
Stone has transmitted her interpretation of the musical to her actors extremely well. Ben Schatz as Snoopy and Allen Gifford as Linus have clearly gotten the message that they should just have a good time out on stage. In "The Book Report," Linus harangues the gang on the deeply rooted rivalry between Flopsy, Mopsy, and Peter Rabbit, and the dichotomous nature of Farmer MacGregor's character as farmer and humanitarian. There's no way to hide the laughter you're trying to suppress so the person next to you won't think you're incredibly silly...
...Ben Schatz portrays perhaps the first mustachioed Snoopy ever seen on stage with much comic skill. Schatz falters when he fails to turn "Suppertime," his rollicking song and dance about eating his dinner, into the showstopper it's meant to be. Perhaps his lackluster performance can be attributed in part to the band, which seems slightly off beat in this number. For most of the show, however, the orchestra has the audience tapping its feet, and those who know the words singing along...
Throughout the Arab world, last week's historic exchange of ambassadors -who accidentally met at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport as they were moving to their new posts-prompted a flurry of symbolic protests. These ranged from scattered demonstrations and Israeli flag burnings in Cairo to noontime traffic stoppages in Syria and general strikes among the Muslim populations of Beirut, the West Bank and Gaza. Even such moderate Arab states as the Sudan and Saudi Arabia expressed their displeasure, while spokesmen for the Palestine Liberation Organization blasted Sadat and the Camp David agreement that...