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...epic vision of what the American experience is all about. As in Bonnie and Clyde and Alice's Restaurant, Penn's hero searches painfully for a way of life that will bring order and meaning to human existence. Crabb tries everything; he becomes an Indian, a white man, a con man, a drunk, a husband, a gun man, a resident of an old age home. But, like all of this director's heroes, Crabb's attempts to find sanity end in desperate failure. Penn has found the perfect setting for his drama, the American West...
Luce is regarded as one of the most socially responsible leaders in the utility business. He is also a realist. Crippled by equipment breakdowns. Con Ed has been forced to cut voltage in controlled "brownouts" for the past two summers. Meantime, New Yorkers demand ever more power. Con Ed is all but helpless to supply it, because conservationists have won assorted court orders delaying the company's proposed new plants. They argue that power generation also generates pollution-and now Luce has publicly agreed with them...
...Three Musketeers. And given that Raby renders the venerable old Dumas novel in a succession of Forty, Count em, Forty, Swiftly Moving and Breathtakingly Dramatic Scenes-See D'Artagnan outwit the Cardinal's guards! See Milady de Winter steal the Queen's jewels from the Duke of Buckingham! See Con-stance, wife of Bonacieux, drink the fatal glass of wine!-George Hamlin's current Loeb production works up virtually every type of scene Polonius could ever want to see. It's a Baskin-Robbins approach to theatre and it includes nigh unto every flavor known...
...research agreement between the University and an external sponsor must have obtained some form of sanction in advance to insure that it con-forms to University principles and doesn't conflict with the rights of others...
...urbanologist. "What distinguishes one administration from another is not so much shifts in abstract policy positions as improvements in social science analysis," he said. He described his job as one of pointing out "the hidden policies of government, the policies not perceived as policies, and forcing the government to con-centrate on the second-, third-, and fourth-order effects of these policies...