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...accepts the idea that even urbanized, affluent, mobile societies are interdependent with the fragile, life-sustaining systems of the air, the water, the land." Nelson's mood may have been a bit too euphoric. Still, even though some of the ecological enthusiasm engendered by Earth Day may fade, the earth itself is not likely to let anyone forget the problem for long...
Taut and literate as Shaffer's entertainment is, it could have been merely another of those theatrical arabesques that fade as quickly as the footlights. Two things redeem it from such slickness. The stylish gusto of Baxter and especially of Quayle give the whole performance an edge that could cut glass. Moreover, Shaffer manages deftly to satirize the detective genre at the same time that he constructs a classic model of it. His satire brings out a hint of desperation behind the characters' capering. Ultimately his sport is directed against the games-playing mentality itself, with its retreat...
...every year and a new-car loan every two years. Corporate entertainment allowances total $2 billion a year in Japan, and Nakatani spends a good chunk of his $1,600 share taking foreign customers to geisha parties. But he is not a kimono chaser. That tradition is beginning to fade, albeit slowly, as Japan's women become more assertive...
Throughout 1971, Lindsay travels the U.S. on whatever weekends he finds free to drum up funds for his new party and support for the urban cause. At first, he has virtually no clout with the party's entrenched powers. The charges of opportunism do not fade quickly. Yet through the year, his fund raising and obvious attraction for the young, the blacks and other minorities build his credit...
...Tarzan swing, and other members of the cast climb almost to the balcony in the sets constructed out along the theatre's walls. The audience is uptight when loin- clothed Berger first climbs out into its lap, panhandling for a dime; but the illusion of spectator distance begins to fade with the progress of the play. The audience comes to realize that the onstage performance is only a segment of the Hair experience, and the evening's real drama lies in their own transformed enlightenment...