Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harris is getting a lot of overnight invitations. This not only gratifies his populist instincts but cuts down on cam paign expenses. Harris will not be able to hide much - whether he eats crack ers in bed or is cranky before his morn ing orange juice. There is something to be said for a little distance...
...tossed out of such shows as Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story - a bittersweet delight. Less than topnotch though they are, the songs brim with confidence and fun. So does the patter, which harks back to the days when sophistication meant wryness and a wise crack was communication. The cast communicates by singing and dancing, and at least two of them - Patricia Elliott and Janie Sell - should immediately have their snap and crackle popped into a real musical...
...finish to last week's mandate negotiations was a deliberate diplomatic ploy by the Syrian President. Assad has been described by Kissinger as "the most interesting man in the Middle East." He looks rather like an indulgent schoolteacher, but has been a crack jet pilot and commander of Syria's air force. In negotiations, he at first seems to waffle and waver, yet even Kissinger has come to respect his exquisite sense of timing and his decisiveness in the crunch. Outwardly modest and self-effacing, inwardly tough, Assad today appears to be consolidating his control of Syria...
Hamsun is housed in an old-folks home while the government ponders what to do with him. The psychiatrists are baffled and so are the official interrogators, who seem gradually reduced to bullies out to crack a 90-year-old man. Hamsun remains impervious. He is possessed by neither God nor the devil and certainly not by Hitler, whom he disliked, but apparently by a fiercely primitive individuality that remains unyielding to all external forces, including the government of Norway. It is one of Dorst's achievements that a thousand questions about the debts owed by the citizen...
...Bishop, shocked, can only respond with a prayer. God is no longer universal--the rest of the country, the rest of the world, is no longer within his vision. The Church has not disintegrated--the pastors and curates continue to help parishioners and serve the Mass--but a hairline crack has developed in the structure. In another story, a new cathedral is built without keystones in the arches, because the architects want a "light and airy feeling"--the keystone, symbol of the timelessness and stability of the Church, is gone. The structure remains, but the well-defined relationships...