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...rough black collage below, inset with garbage cans, pails, tires and a metal ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys afraid to graduate into an unwelcoming world, from a ruined multimillionaire to a scrounging hobo. These are often archetypes, but just as often their circumstances have been drawn from historical record. The documentary aura...
Although the panel rejected any efforts to expand the legal definition of obscenity (which the Supreme Court has declared depends partly on the "community standards" of each locality), it did call for the enactment of federal laws to make it easier to seize the assets of those involved in the trade. It also proposed that Congress enact unfair-labor-practice laws to be used against producers who pay performers in pornographic films. The Federal Communications Commission, it said, should restrict pornographic cable television shows and "Dial-a-Porn" telephone services. It also recommended that peep-show booths not be equipped...
...Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help caring about what happened to these boys of summer some 67 summers...
...committee report the reason for each transition rule adopted, exactly who will profit and by how much--information that is still lacking on many of the Senate's own transition rules. If the conference committee complies, the unprecedented publicity might just make such blatant favors a bit harder to enact...
...repeatedly said that the best way for Americans to effect change in South Africa is to urge Congress to enact legislation against that nation. For this reason, Bok has asked students to turn their energies away from calling on Harvard to divest and to write to their congressmen...