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...plays hold up? It is difficult to tell from reading them. The right actors, stage business and timing are essential to their success. In Kaufman's offstage humor there is the persistent delight of his famous pun, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." But there is also an unleavened cruelty. After one of Dorothy Parker's unsuccessful suicide attempts, he remarked, "Dorothy, you've got to be careful. Next time you might hurt yourself...
...perhaps tragically, if it is to remain open, human society must assume certain risks. They need not include insanity, terrorism, murder. But they had better include the liberty of action. Total-in other words, totalitarian-security means, ultimately, the Astrodome made global. No weather, no shadows, no frustration, no delight, no true freedom. It is an Anthony Burgess vision made real, a film in which there is no fadeout. That vision is worth pondering the next time violence beckons in some chance and random spot...
Always poised, invariably smiling, she expressed delight at everything she was shown-which pleased Muscovites, who have a nagging sense of inferiority about all things Russian. Visiting a secondary school, she held Mrs. Brezhnev's hand and gave it an occasional pat. In an art class, she was delighted by an eight-year-old girl's painting of the sun. "Oh, I have to have it!" she exclaimed. "I love it. When the sun shines, everybody is happy." She hugged the budding artist and kissed her on the cheek. Leaving the school, she observed pointedly: "The students...
...will be accorded the privilege of making a short television address to the Soviet people. Pat Nixon will be the guest of Mrs. Brezhnev at tea and will visit Moscow University, the GUM department store, the Bolshoi ballet school and the Moscow circus, whose trained bears are likely to delight the First Lady as much as Peking's pandas did. The Nixons will fly to Leningrad for a day to visit the Summer Palace and the war cemetery of the victims of the city's World War II siege. They will also visit Kiev, where they are expected...
...Carmines zipped uptown to Manhattan's Town Hall for a recital of songs from some of the 58 shows he has written since 1961. Looking like a saintly, unsmirched Oscar Wilde, he sang in a brassy baritone, played some fleet-fingered piano, and filled the hall with resounding delight...