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...interplay between the two women is the play's mainspring. Ivey bubbles with crude gaiety in her effort to be liked. Harris finds pathetic dignity in an emotional loss that makes her physically ill. The supporting cast is also adept, notably George N. Martin as Harris' stolid, stubborn husband; only McGoohan's automaton-like condescension seems unreal. Director Clifford Williams has sensitively evoked the rhythms of the play, which alternates between naturalistic bursts of action and spotlighted soliloquies. Much of the story is told after the fact, in an elegiac, ruminative tone, reminiscent of $ recent work by Tom Stoppard...
...first generation of how-to tapes has not exactly advanced the video art form. Some use a celebrity host to liven up a dry presentation; more often an anonymous lecturer is aided only by crude graphics or amateurish dramatizations. Attempts to make the material more "visual" are frequently awkward. First Aid: The Video Kit, produced by the American Red Cross and CBS/ Fox Video, buries its valuable information amid hokey sketches in which two couples are instructed in proper first-aid techniques by a helpful neighbor...
Citizen Hughes is mostly about big money in high places, of cash siphoned from Hughes' Nevada gambling casinos and piped to politicians. Wielding the only power he knew, the deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: "I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me." On Hubert Humphrey: "A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently." On Richard Nixon: "My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life...
Last week's agreement largely settled a long-festering dispute over the price differentials between two major grades of oil, light and heavy. The light-crude producers like the United Arab Emirates needed lower official prices in order to remain competitive with less expensive heavy oil produced by countries like Kuwait and Venezuela. The group also took the symbolic step of abandoning Arab Light as the bench-mark price for all OPEC crude. Arab Light, once the world's most important oil, is now just another grade struggling in a world awash in oil. Admitted OPEC's current chairman, Subroto...
Norway, a non-OPEC oil producer, touched off the cartel's current troubles last October by cutting the price of its North Sea crude by $1.50 per bbl., to $28.50. Britain quickly followed Norway, which inspired OPEC member Nigeria to undercut both competitors and sell its oil for $28. OPEC tried to brake the price slide in October by reducing the output quota for its members from 17.5 million bbl. a day to 16 million in hopes that lower supply would mean higher prices. At the time, the group predicted confidently that as soon as oil refiners began building their...