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Grizzard's Ralph was an eternal Lit le Boy Blue but capable of last-ditch courage; Luckinbill is simply an animated puppet dangling jerkily from unseen strings. Baxley's Emily was managerial yet vulnerable; Feldon is as crisp as a fresh ice cube and just about as cool whenever she melts. Under Weidner, pauses became gravamens of a lost chord of happiness. Theodore Mann directs Past Tense as if he were presiding over a domestic roller derby. It is a valuable reminder that the play you see is not always the one the au thor actually wrote...
Another apparent last-ditch expedient in Tito's remarkable survival has been the use of an experimental U.S. drug called Moxalactam, produced by Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis. The penicillin-related drug has not yet been licensed for sale in the U.S. But when Tito's doctors requested an emergency shipment late last month, permission was almost immediately granted by both the State Department and the Food and Drug Administration. Initial results were encouraging. Nevertheless, high fever has persisted and medical experts doubt that the new drug can maintain his life...
Levine is qualified for the appointment and, as part of a last-ditch effort to salvage Afro-American studies, may be crucial in the rebuilding of the ailing department. Those who hope for a strong Afro-American Studies Department should not hesitate to seek input into the rebuilding process but should refrain from unsubstantiated attacks. No scholars--Levine, Knight, Huggins or anyone else--could possibly meet every possible objection; ideal Afro-American studies scholars may exist somewhere, but gathering them at Harvard will not occur overnight. These three seem the best hope for the department right now. We urge them...
...hood popped up in Iowa and Rick missed a telephone pole by the page of a Gutenberg bible. Sammy sat up. Everything was fine, but the Dodge was in a ditch. A patrol car came by and pulled them back to the road. You have any controlled substances, any firearms? No, said Rick. You're no fun, said the patrolman, climbing into his car and leading the way through the corn fields...
...Germany's Der Spiegel had her car tires shot flat. TIME'S David DeVoss, traveling with Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, was stopped by Soviets northwest of Kabul when Van Es tried to photograph some newly widened artillery pits. The pair was held in a snow-filled ditch and guarded by four Kalashnikov-toting Soviets...