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...English translations by the author and others do their best to obey the spirit of this injunction. Storytellers appear suddenly, with scant preamble, and seem eager to get off the page as soon as possible. They punctuate their narratives with such remarks as "To make it short . . ." and "Why drag it out?" The Trap involves yet another caller at the writer's apartment, a woman on crutches who announces, "I'm not going to bother you with too many details. I'll come right to the point...
Envision a King Lear cut down to 100 minutes, cast only with men -- the daughters sporting beards, the fool a burly fellow in nurse drag -- and staged as the fantasies and fuddled memories of a dotard near death. Not outraged yet? How about a Lear in which the title character is played without age makeup by a 30-year-old? For which the director is a Japanese staging his first work entirely in English? For which the costumes are pieced together from antique kimonos, the set is metal gratings and a chair, and Lear spends a long while stuffed into...
Once in the air, the young pilot maneuvered Daedalus 88 with a stubby metal joystick on the floor to his right. To decrease the drag on their sprawling invention, the plane's designers had dispensed with the hinged ailerons on the following edges of the wings that normally make turning easier. As a result, Daedalus responded sluggishly, to the stick's movements, making it more difficult for Kanellopoulos to steer a straight course...
...were in hermetically sealed isolation chambers for the last year," says Philip Lacovara, a member of the Watergate prosecution team, "but that the grand jurors were in the same isolation chamber. That's not easy." If Walsh loses that challenge, the entire indictment could be dismissed. The arguments could drag on for a year or more. By the time North and his associates ever face a jury, Ronald Reagan may be long gone from the White House...
...walkout from the talks. For another, the Soviet representative at the negotiations, Ambassador-at-Large Nikolai Kozyrev, revealed that his government and the U.S. are conducting intensive and highly secret discussions on Afghanistan in Moscow and Washington. The ever persistent Cordovez has privately predicted that the bargaining could drag on. Summed up Noorani: "The important date is not the 15th of March; it's the 15th...