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...Times'? The paper's twin coup was the result of several elements. Its correspondents have been admirably persistent in knocking on the Bamboo Curtain; Lewis had been trying to get into Hanoi for two years, and from his London base renewed his pleas to North Vietnamese officials in Paris almost monthly. Another factor is the Times's undeniable prestige and influence in the U.S. Both Pyongyang and Hanoi obviously felt that they could benefit from some press exposure in the U.S. at this time, and that the Timesmen were likely to give them a favorable shake...
...know, you have to realize when you just have to sit back and let it be," Guy had said the night before. But as curtain time approaches for the first of the press previews, he continues to polish the last bit of sparkle into his blue diamond of a show...
...Dead, had those two pitiably bewildered title characters trying to figure out what the devil was going on in the castle at Elsinore. His new playlets are dramatic trifles compared to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but the longer and better one, The Real Inspector Hound, is highly diverting. (The brief curtain raiser, After Magritte, simply reduces the deductive process to a bundle of false clues that turn the characters, as well as the lines, into absurdist non sequiturs...
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS by Mort Shuman and Eric Blau: director Guy Rochman, music director Tom Johnson, Mather House Dining Hall May 4-7 house open 8:30 PM curtain 9:00 PM $2.50 (including wine and fruits of the season) call 495-4384 for tickets...
...couple of G.I.s popping open beer cans with Mama-san and her whores. Through the bead curtain, a hand lobs a lump of steel. Thump and roll. "Grenade!" Soldier scoops it up, hesitates in stupid disbelief. FLASH! BLAM! So begins-and 140 minutes later, in an almost exact replay, so ends-The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Between these two unanswerable exclamation points, Playwright David Rabe strings the lifeline of the soldier, Pavlo; then on that cord he attempts to hang what he sees as the rags of national honor, bloodied by the Viet...