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...Moscow was handling the case of Andrei Sakharov, intellectual leader of the besieged Soviet dissident movement. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient began a hunger strike on May 2 to secure permission for his ailing wife Yelena Bonner to travel abroad for medical treatment. Turning a deaf ear to a growing chorus of international protests and inquiries, the Soviets refused to give any details on Sakharov's health and whereabouts. Said a top Washington diplomat: "They are not capable of taking any positive steps, so they are turning inward and isolating themselves. It is leadership by tantrum...
Although the author is a master of the unexpected, violence is not his specialty. Leonard's principal virtues are a Panasonic ear and an infallible sense of character. His narrative tone is that of the man across the airplane aisle who has a good story to tell, if only he could trust you. Grammar is irrelevant; sentences seem to have been delivered, not written: "At approximately 1:30 a.m. he saw the Silver Mark VI traveling south on John R at a high rate of speed with a black Buick like nailed to its tail." His humor is stag...
...that, of course, you can sit back, smile, and watch with wide eyes. With all the glittering costumes and the rotating mirrored sets, however, the extravagance at times seems almost embarrassing. The book is just too silly, and quite a few of the songs ring flat in the contemporary ear. Among the notable exceptions to this are some familiar hummable-or perhaps more appropriately, toe-tapping-numbers, including "We're in the Money," Lullaby of Broadway," Shuffle Off to Buffalo," and the title song...
...presidential campaign, Democratic Front Runner Walter Mondale last week denounced the plan as "dangerously destabilizing" and called for a freeze on military uses of space. The Democrats believe that the President's embrace of antimissile weapons will fan fears that he is a trigger-happy nucl ear cowboy...
Gurney (The Dining Room, The Middle Ages) has a sure sense of structure and an ear for dialogue. But his play is irreparably flawed where it veers away from the original. In James' story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character...