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Limited by the extremely small stage, Wu decides to forego a set. However, the white curtain that serves as the backdrop for most of the play becomes boring. And the forest backdrop appears too infrequently to relieve the monotony...
...curtain has sadly closed on Ralph James's athletic career at Harvard. Adieu and thanks for everything, Ralph...
...most Americans the word "Germany" conjures up images of beer steins, Oktoberfest and high-tech luxury automobiles. But the Germany that most Americans visit and think about has been the Federal Republic, or West Germany. Since the Iron Curtain descended in 1945, the eastern half of Germany has represented little more than a gray stone in the impenetrable wall of the Soviet Empire...
Saddam Hussein converted the Guard into a full-fledged fighting force during the eight-year war with Iran. Guard troops sustained heavy losses in 1986-87, but then became national heroes in 1988, when they penetrated a curtain of shell fire and were instrumental in the recapture from Iran of the Fao peninsula, the engagement that broke the back of the Iranian war effort and persuaded the Ayatullah's men to sue for peace...
...very momentousness of its subject, however, is the biggest hurdle facing the six-hour PBS series Making Sense of the Sixties. So many pieces of the story have been told so often, in documentaries from Eyes on the Prize to Berkeley in the '60s, that a curtain of boredom threatens to fall even before the stage is set. Much of the material is distressingly familiar: the expected film clips (Martin Luther King, Woodstock, the Democrats at war in Chicago) annotated with the expected cliches ("The age of heroes was over...