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...time for the curtain to fall on the era of unrestrained summitry...
...Curtain, Christie (2 last week...
Russian Advisers. "Sometimes." says one Damascus intellectual, "we feel we are behind the curtain." Despite new openings to foreigners, travel outside the country is difficult for Syrian citizens. Men cannot leave until they have completed military service. Women must be at least 30 years old; before that, they are expected to hold down jobs in place of men in the military. About 50 categories of professionals and technicians, including doctors, lawyers and engineers, are denied exit visas lest they refuse to return home. Also forbidden to emigrate are Syria's 4,000 Jews, the remnant of a community that...
...Curtain, Christie...
...this Miss Lonelyhearts succeeds in evoking the supreme negativity of West's vision, Teichmann's occasional soppiness notwithstanding. Because of the peculiar balance of this production, however, we don't even need to wait for the final curtain to experience the onset of despair. When Shrike, shrill as the song of the bird he's named for, tells Miss Lonelyhearts to "Get off this milk of human kindness bit," we wish the misguided kid would take his advice...