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NATO Secretary-General Lord Carrington hailed the budget increase as a "considerable effort." It was news that Washington badly wanted to hear. In the event of a Soviet attack on the allies, the U.S. would send six Army divisions and 1,100 tactical fighter aircraft to their aid; the question has been whether such action would do any good. U.S. military analysts fear that planes ferried to airbases in West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands would be easily destroyed because of the lack of bombproof aircraft shelters. Western Europe's munition dumps have been inadequately stocked...
...this fall, and prime time is overflowing with ornately dressed, immaculately coiffed leading ladies who glide through fabulous worlds of wealth, power, romance and high-style intrigue. Some of them, such as Fairchild and Dina Merrill in Hot Pursuit, are campy bitches modeled after Joan Collins' conniving Alexis Carrington Colby. Others, like Dynasty's Linda Evans and Dallas' Priscilla Presley, are equally fanciful angels of goodness and nobility. Still others, like this season's spate of high-living private eyes, are just girls who want to have fun. But all of them embody a new ethic...
...these actresses may be making a bigger impact off-screen than on. Linda Evans, 41, the striking beauty who plays Krystle Carrington on Dynasty, in particular has become a sort of matron saint for the over-40 crowd. Says she: "I'm thrilled to be able to say to women, 'I'm 41, and I love it. Come along down the road. It's not horrible.' " Adds Dallas' Linda Gray, 44: "I feel grateful that Joan and Linda and I are role models for women in America. We are saying...
...contemplation of this act, and the decision to go through with it, that provides Talmage with the framework for his play. Perhaps despairing of handling the glittering literary cast that thronged through his characters' lives, the playwright turns everyone from Virginia Woolf to Carrington's sailor-lover into throwaway lines. As a theatrical contrivance this works amusingly. But it is one thing to simplify, for dramatic convenience, the structure of historical lives and quite another to oversimplify their emotional tenor. In Talmage's hands, the brilliant Strachey becomes a fussy queen; the dangerously unstable Carrington, a ditsy...
...theater piece. Talmage has a genuine talent for witty dialogue, Charles Nelson Reilly has directed with an inventiveness that is only occasionally overenthusiastic, and the actors are near perfect. One suspects there is more gallantry in Prey's Strachey, more simple romanticism and humanity in Harris' Carrington than either history or the script invested them with. Be that as it may, one also suspects that in a theatrical climate where the domestication of homoexoticism for the middle-class market is a prime order of business, this play may well find its place as a sort of La Cage...