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Indeed, it is unlikely that any investigator this week will even pose in so many words some of the numerous questions raised by North's career on the NSC. The committees, to be sure, are prepared to give their star witness a tough, at times caustic, grilling. But their investigation is limited to the Iran- contra affair, and their attention is focused on such matters as whether and how much President Reagan knew about the diversion of Iranian arms-sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. That complex scandal, however, points to broader problems that also deserve investigation: What do North...
...Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who led the government case against junta leaders two years ago, was quoted by a Spanish newspaper as calling the law an "error" and an "absurdity," adding that "society knows perfectly well what happened during those years." In Buenos Aires, a newspaper cartoon carried the caustic caption "To err is human, to forgive is divine, to approve due obedience is Argentine...
Despite its name, Friday Saturday Sunday, another '70s winner, serves dinner all week in a jaunty storefront setting. The savory smoked bluefish with horseradish-flecked whipped cream proved a better starter than a Sichuan beef salad that had a caustic dressing. Duck with a sweet-and-pungent curry sauce was as delectable as the Cornish hen Normandy, stuffed with apples and walnuts...
What fun A.N. Wilson has with these foolish mortals. Love Unknown is his tenth novel, and his command of caustic social comedy seems complete. He is pitiless in describing the cliches of adultery so eagerly embraced by his lovers -- Simon's nattering about whether his many "meaningless" affairs have rendered him unfit for nobler passion, Monica's inflating to Wagnerian grandeur her demand that he leave his wife. Meanwhile, domesticity grinds on relentlessly, and it is the urgent and unpredictable demands of his large, eccentric family that finally defeat Simon...
...each sketch, joke, song and story is delivered, the play tilts from funny to bitingly sarcastic. A playful bit targetting female images in popular media, from those of Father Knows Best to Charlie's Angels to Tootsie, comes only after a caustic routine in which cast members playing male children are told that because they have a penis, they can grow up to be anything they want, while the girls are told that because they don't have a penis, they cannot...