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This year's production. Of Mines and Men, is as sharp as any Cleverly written and performed, it retains the best parts of Pudding shows past--the quick action, smooth choreography and blunt but nonetheless--their tendency to dissolve midway through to inflict unduly tedious second acts upon audiences who stick around only for the theatrical's famed kick-line finale. And it continue to provide just enough of the Harvard and Pudding in-jokes that Pudding goes relish. This year, for instance, there is a musical reference to Chem 20 and narcissistic puns like: "oh, Gustave...
Nakasone's subsequent talks on Capitol Hill went better than he had expected. Legislators gave him some blunt talk about U.S.-Japanese relations, but most seemed impressed by his desire to be accommodating. As Democratic Congressman Samuel Stratton of New York put it, "We think he is trying to do more than anybody has done before...
...Degrading." A "futile exercise." With those brusque dismissals, Dirk Mudge, 55, a blunt-spoken rancher and politician, rang down the curtain last week on the latest act in southern Africa's longest-running shadow play: progress, or more accurately the lack of it, toward independent self-government for the vast and arid territory of Namibia. For more than three decades, South Africa has ruled Namibia in defiance of world opinion and United Nations resolutions. For the past four years Mudge and fellow members of his multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.) exercised nominal authority over local affairs in the territory...
Because Gandhi lives in the movie as a force or principle rather than a person, he lives only in his opposition to those antithetical forces which confront him--the injustice, degradation and blunt evil of colonialism and racism. Since these afflict millions, first in South Africa, where Gandhi wages his nonviolent war against the racism of Jan Smuts's regime, and then in India, Gandhi and his battle necessarily take place on the national and international stage. And here the movie wins its audience even if it loses much of its humanity...
DIED. Tom McCall, 69, environment-minded Governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975; of cancer; in Portland. A progressive Republican whose grandfather was a two-term Governor of Massachusetts, McCall pushed through tough laws regulating land use and pollution. Both patrician and folksy, the former journalist could be blunt: in 1971, he shooed prospective residents away from the state with the exhortation: "Visit-but for heaven's sake, don't stay...