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...missiles, the contras claim to have shot down more than 20 Sandinista helicopters this year, and are now stepping up attacks in the northern provinces. A sympathetic expatriate community in Miami still believes the contras could win the war if U.S. funding continues, a prospect that it admits is dim. "There will be a lot of bitter Nicaraguans in Miami," warns Jaime Suchlicki, the Cuban-born director of the University of Miami's Institute of Interamerican Studies. "Who would trust the U.S. after this...
...wonder, then, that stock investors have been nervous. Whatever the precise mix of emotions and events that triggered last week's collapse -- and to establish that mix would require probing into millions of minds around the world -- its root cause was a dim but accurate perception that U.S. prosperity was not sustainable with present policy. And with Congress and the President perpetually wrangling over the most modest proposals to reduce the budget deficit, they could see no sign that policy was about to change...
Anything Goes begins and ends -- in this production, literally -- with Cole Porter, whose extraordinary score is the one reason to bring back this sweetly silly show. As the lights dim, his reedy voice is heard intoning the title tune. At the curtain, after a pleasure cruise through the likes of You're the Top, Friendship and It's Delovely (the latter two lifted from other Porter shows), a giant lighted-up portrait of the composer-lyricist, who died in 1964, descends to smile benevolently...
Beatrice (Carolyn Duffy), a divorcee and widow, considers her life a failure. Her marriage was a disaster, her career is nonexistent (she earns a measly $50 a week caring for unbearable invalids), her hopes for the future are dim, and her children, well, one is recovering from a mental breakdown and the other is busy experimenting with radioactive seeds...
...began to frequent Algiers. In my All-American mind, Algiers and coffee and smoke and foreign languages and the Middle East became all mixed up. Algiers was a world I had never known. I knew my mother would hate this smoke-filled cafe, with dim lighting. None of the people there looked like they had grown up in a fifties-style neighborhood, with a back yard and little leagues and barbeques. None of them had ever played badminton...