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...Clever distancing could be admired, but Washington cared more about changing behavior. To press the issue, Baker telephoned Shevardnadze shortly after Malta. "We will have to have another very serious conversation with the Nicaraguans and Cubans, even though we just had a visit," said Shevardnadze, instructing his translator to emphasize very. Baker then sent an eyes-only cable to Shevardnadze listing "requests of the Soviet Union by the United States." Among them, he asked for a "Soviet commitment that all arms shipments from Nicaragua to the F.M.L.N. cease definitively and that no territory of Nicaragua be used by others...
...WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: IRREVERENT NOTES FROM A DECADE OF GREED by Barbara Ehrenreich (Pantheon; $19.95). The populist essayist leads a neoliberal charge against the '80s with some witty Reagan bashing, yuppie demolishing, corporation crunching and hearty swipes at a time when a clever few made so much at the expense of so many...
...undue limitations on the movements of the cast are especially striking in the opening dance number, "I Hope I Get It." The dancers, divided into smaller groups, perform a routine that Zach's assistant, Lori, has taught them. (In a clever casting twist, Hyett casted Christine van Kipnis, the show's choreographer, in the role.) In these dances, the individual groups are supposed to seem motley, but the cast members carry this to ridiculous lengths. They bounce into each other and dance more poorly than professionals ever would...
...production is a spectacular, stylish revue of the works of the famous Broadway composer, and the musical numbers are naturally appealing. But what increases their appeal is the remarkably successful delivery on the part of the four enchanting performers, and very clever staging by producer Abigail A. Kohn...
...asked Lertola to diagram both the family tree of matter and the difference between types of gigantic underground colliders, the huge machines in which subatomic particles are accelerated to fantastic speeds. "Each assignment has its own challenge," says Lertola. "The image has to get an idea across in a % clever way. This time the devil was in the detail: colors, shapes and contrasts...