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...millions of Americans to send telegrams, for instance--has enticed the mass to fight against its own interests. Now they must turn to face Reagan and the battle must be joined. Stockman's candor, like one loose thread in a beautiful sweater, provides the perfect opportunity for unraveling the deceit and sophistry that have characterized the administration's program...
...sudden turnaround by the Chinese? For one thing, Peking badly underestimated the rancor that the cancellations provoked among international businessmen, who accused the People's Republic of everything from waffling to downright deceit. Says one Peking-based diplomat: "The Chinese just did not expect such a sensation, but when they saw the result they decided to try to repair the damage...
With plodding thoroughness, the author reveals the hypocrisy of submission and the personal deceit practiced by Petain and his ilk. Once the Jewish extermination program was in place in 1942, the Vichy leaders had increasing difficulty explaining that concern for France justified an alliance with Hitler. Picking through conversations between Pierre Laval and Wehrmacht representatives, Pryce-Jones proves that Vichy cooperation went beyond facilitating the deportation of Jews. Laval knew that there were no "labor" camps at the end of the German train lines, but that did not concern him. His only thought was to use the twisted German racial...
...behind even this layer that this play succeeds so well. Shepard's dialogue is almost inadvertent--it bubbles up from the turmoil below. He deals in images and almost primitive responses--screams, bodies, music, costumes and deceit. The music in this show, composed by Stephen Drury, is wonderful--unnerving and soothing, sometimes capricious and sometimes just a bit too out of control for comfort. In these silences Shepard does his best exploration--and into these silences this production does not attempt to read too much. These characters for the most part are shadows--inventive shadows (Pablo's and Louis...
...revelations, since buttressed by other former U.S. and Japanese diplomats, exploded across Japan. Last week Socialist Leader Ichio Asukata declared that the government of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki "deserves 10,000 deaths" for the nuclear deceit. Leftist and labor organizations rallied to protest port calls by U.S. naval vessels and demanded on-site inspections of all U.S. bases in Japan...