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...best in the evanescent pages of a daily newspaper. Packed lead to kicker in book form, Buchwald's formula whimsy loses much of its punch. Verbal skits about Geraldine Ferraro, Michael Jackson, the President, home-computer miseries, the Pope and Cabbage Patch dolls now read like shots in the dark. Yet this and previous collections of the journalist's craft may one day enjoy new life. Buchwald's job is to repeat history as farce faster than one can say Karl Marx. To the patient reader, farce inevitably returns as nostalgia...
There is a dark side to instant communication, already understood by terrorists. In the short run, the cameras can be exploited for propaganda. In the long run, fortunately, the truth asserts itself. Reagan is so certain of the potential of global imagery that he has begun to ponder how best to cast this year's summit in the U.S. so that doubters all over the world can see Gorbachev on the U.S. stage...
...orders, all U.S. airlines will equip their fleets with more fire-retardant seat cushions over the next two years. By next spring the aircraft will have improved fire extinguishers and smoke detectors, and by year's end they will get emergency floor markings designed to enable passengers to escape dark, smoke-filled planes. Still more improvements are on the way. The FAA plans this week to require airlines to carry medical kits for any doctors on board to use in emergencies...
Writing under his own byline in the New York Times Magazine last week, President Reagan condemned organized crime as "this dark, evil enemy within." He praised a commission he had appointed for exposing "the all too rarely discussed problem of those institutions and professionals--such as corrupt banks, unions or crooked lawyers--whose veneer of respectability helps make them the mainstays of organized crime...
...past decade he has emerged as one of Britain's leading playwrights. His glimpse of backstage pandemonium, Noises Off, was a Broadway hit two seasons ago. Seven earlier scripts have been produced, most of them in London and by companies in Seattle, Dallas, Washington and New Haven. His dark comedy Benefactors is the Broadway season's most acclaimed play. Wild Honey, Frayn's bold adaptation of the young Anton Chekhov's Platonov, packed the house at London's National Theater and is due in the U.S. this fall. And in March, Frayn's first film, a rueful comedy called Clockwise...