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Whoever rules Cambodia in the foreseeable future will reign over a devastated land. According to refugees who have escaped into Thailand, the once lush province of Battambang in Western Cambodia is bare of all fruit and bereft of most of its people. In eerily deserted villages, papaya trees stand like bean poles, their fruit, then their leaves, having been torn off by starving peasants. According to the British Foreign Office study, since 1975 an estimated 2 million Cambodians have died of starvation and disease as a result of a campaign to drive city dwellers into the countryside, where there...
Unfortunately, the Administration seems bereft of new ideas for bringing the rate down. Last week it even silenced one of its anti-inflationary guns: Barry Bosworth, head of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, who had riled union leaders by assailing big wage boosts, was ordered to shut up. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Chicago that henceforth any Administration comments on labor negotiations will be coordinated by a five-man committee on which Bosworth will have only one voice. Translation: less, and softer, jawboning. As a substitute, Marshall is talking up Government...
...Bereft of these comic scenes, the Leverett show was free to be a brief but potent spectacle of violent tragedy. Instead the performers seen to feel they have to make up for the comedy lost when the subplot was cut. In the process they dilute the effectiveness of the best melodramatic scenes...
...text bereft of all meaning, witness the Marc Antony of Austin Pendleton. He bird-chirps the resonant oratory, and his climactic moments consist of nasal sobs. He could no more move men to mass mutiny than he could leave a scuff mark on a molehill. Alone in this whole sorry mess, Holly Villaire, playing Brutus' wife Portia, rings true, displaying a loving care, loyalty and concern for her husband that no one has shown for the play...
...musical lives by the book or dies by the book. What Bob Fosse proves in Dancin ' is that regardless of driving energy, exquisite symmetry of motion and flawless execution, a musical bereft of a book is stillborn. Watching Dancin' is like watching the tentacles of an octopus expertly coiling and uncoiling around a nonexistent object...