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...comes to love. For one thing--and it may be ungallant to say so--Miss Reid can no longer pass for a young woman in her midtwenties. Masha is also the most complicated of the three sisters. Miss Reid has no particular trouble conveying the blunt, even coarse speech of Masha, but she has not sufficiently plumbed the poetic sensitivity that lies beneath. It is not a bad performance; it just leaves a great deal yet to be explored. The problem of Masha's and Vershinin's drum-roll exchanges ("Tram-tam-tam ... tra-ra-ra"), the shortest mutual love...
South Africa badly needs to sell gold to pay for its imports; but other nations have not been buying its bullion for their monetary reserves since 1968, when the U.S. persuaded central bankers to join a boycott. That move was part of a power play intended to blunt South Africa's campaign for an increase in the price of gold. U.S. officials hoped to force South Africa to dump its gold on free markets in London and Switzerland and thus drive the free-market price down to the $35-per-ounce level that prevails in deals between governments...
Cariou is absolutely first-rate, though, in the long and difficult introspective soliloquy on "ceremony," and in the ensuing prayer ("O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts"). And his blunt wooing of the French princess in the final scene is wholly admirable. At the performance I attended, Carious was clearly off form in the noble "Saint Crispian" speech (scene caption, if you can believe it: "The Machine Creates the Believable Lie; Point of No Return"). In the line "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers," he even left out the middle phrase, which is probably the most...
...from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the sessions were also attended by 21 convicts selected to represent a cross section of inmates in Maryland prisons. They were paid $3 per day as "consultants" and allowed to dress in sport clothes like the other participants. Savvy and blunt, they provided another bit of vivid evidence that in most prisons society is wasting time and money on a system that is self-righteous, vindictive and ultimately ineffective (TIME Essay, March...
Bless Jane Jacobs. Lively, lucid, blunt, original, she triumphs by being mostly wrong. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), took thousands of great-American-city dwellers by storm. Written in the heyday of urban renewal, it briskly pointed out that most big, supposedly progressive rebuilding projects were casting a "great blight of dullness" on the already tormented city dweller. In her ten years as an editor of Architectural Forum, she had seen plenty of such projects. The zesty future, she argued, could be found instead by returning to the diversity of the past...