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...Capulet clan, Caroline Bicks threatens to steal the show as the Nurse. Her ceaseless babbling and uncultured mannerisms are as amusing as they are skillfully executed. Her gesticulation, when not bordering on mugging, is equally entertaining...
...small, borrowed apartment in Jerusalem where Anatoli and Avital Shcharansky are staying bears a striking resemblance to the cluttered flats in the Soviet Union where dissidents once congregated. Folders of correspondence and masses of newspaper clippings lie scattered about--some of the detritus of Avital's ceaseless nine-year campaign to rouse world opinion on her husband's behalf. Gifts and congratulatory messages are displayed on every available surface: a silver kiddush cup from a Jewish congregation in New York, a crayon drawing by a child that shows a flourishing green tree and Israeli flag. Floating on the ceiling...
...crowded calendars point up the extent to which California's legislative agenda has become a vehicle for ceaseless and extravagant campaign fund raising. Of course, using public office to attract political contributions is hardly unknown. But in California the practice has spiraled virtually out of control, leading to what an indignant private study commission called "a new political gold rush." In 1984, campaign spending for seats in the 80-member assembly and the 40-member state senate hit $45 million, by far the highest in the nation...
...scholar who would blithely circumvent guidelines for the preservation of academic freedom after Harvard had led a national fight in Washington, D.C. last year to preserve just those rights. Still others wondered how Safran could have violated an unwritten rule of ethics and allowed his book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security," published last fall by Harvard University Press, to go to print without noting the CIA sponsorship...
...Note: The title of Safran's recently published book is stated incompletely in Spence's report. The complete title is "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security...