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...homosexual son, in which all the parts are played by people over 60. "It's sick!" members of the audience shout. A collective American voice replies, "Sick is real! Sick is interesting!" Not all that interesting, though. It is far easier in fiction than in life to distinguish the quick from the dead...
...giant morning glory about to devour the piano. Each announces, "I came into the world..." and begins a work which consists of nothing but confessional sentences beginning with "I." Amid a set that looks like Design Research kindergarten toys, the actors deliver such lines as "I learned to distinguish between nouns and verbs," "I appropriated property in disregard of the general welfare," "I opened my eyes during sexual intercourse." It's all very interesting--for the first three minutes...
...Department generally recognizes that although most youths who are locked up need not be, some youths continue to be securely confined. The report urged continued attempts to distinguish between these types of youths...
...scoldingly for not working harder to get what he wants. The radicals of five years ago will think he's sold out. Radicals today may not understand his confusion; most current organizers for domestic self-determination movements never really thought of themselves as ascetics. Unfortunately, Kramer doesn't distinguish between the kind of Movement politics that was getting him and most people nowhere in the sixties and the present prospects for constructive Movement politics, in which country radicalism definitely plays a part...
...general confusion in the minds of dealers and the public. According to a nationwide survey by Clark Gavin Associates, Long Island-based marketing consultants, store owners believe that at a time when the makers of most alcoholic products stress lightness, calling a new drink "light" does nothing to distinguish it from, say, Canadian or Scotch whiskies. Liquor dealers are unsure whether a new light drink will bring additional business or merely siphon sales away from older labels. As a result, light whisky is often stacked willy-nilly among bourbons and rye blends on the shelves so that buyers come across...