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...newspaper's crossword puzzle is usually a refuge from the sober headlines, an escapist's Eden of three-letter words for a legendary bird or the 17th century name of Tokyo. Now the heavy cares of world affairs have invaded that preserve. In a Boston Globe puzzle last week, the No. 1 down clue read: "Modern type of war." Answer: NOWIN...
...only book to appear on this subject is ???ckie paperback, The Killing of Sharon Tate. It is a calculated exploitational work of popular culture, complete with pseudo-sociology, gore, glamour and inexplicit sex. As escapist reading however, it isn't a hell...
...women, who seemed most deeply attached to their relatives or rooted to military routines, were often the most likely to give in to sadness and discouragement when their husbands left. Such wives, says Medical Corps Psychiatrist Laurence A. Cove, often seemed to try to suppress their anxieties, sometimes by escapist "thinking about how good the next assignment would be." By contrast, several "unhappy and emotionally delicate" wives developed independent activities and a new sense of self-fulfillment in their spouses' absence. Frequently they were able to give healthy vent to their anger at the military by reducing their involvement...
...Proposition will not challenge your well-insulated intellectualism. Admittedly, it is escapist; but that does not exclude the possibility of its being funny. When Fred Grandy comes on and looks like Bob Dylan and eats his harmonica like Dylan and sings like you've always secretly thought Bob Dylan did sing, you can guffaw if you want; you can even roll around a little on the kindergarten-colored wood benches (at least I did, much to the discomfort of another reviewer's wife who was snickering beside...
...leftovers from before, and the Nixon Messiah is a disappointing adventure beyond the range of the actors' voices. But you don't notice until you've left and your chuckles turn to resonant Harvard sighs. Ken Tigar, Judy Kahan, and Fred Grandy are funny. And I'm an escapist at heart anyhow. SCOTT W. JACOBS