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...fiction do anything for the war in Viet Nam that ten years of TV film clips and a torrent of journalism did not? After all the surfeits of that war-the distant carnage, the fallout of casualties closer to home, the national agony of consciousness and political dislocation in the U.S.-can the imagination of a storyteller offer anything more than a few slice-of-death memories...
...that the fallout of Watergate, or the American military's defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese and world opinion, has erased the problems of racism, sexism, imperialism and poverty. The problems have only grown. We always knew that not one small clique, but a tremendously powerful and intricate network of favoritism and corruption, feeding upon the failure of the people's ideology to condemn all forms of human domination, lies at the heart of the problem; and that network is unshaken...
...catchword for the show is chaos. The Who tumble up the stairs and onto the stage--unlit, save for a blinking reproduction of a Civil Defense fallout shelter sign. No ceremony, no circumstance, no introduction. There are four songs to warm up, Quadrophenia, then three more songs. The warm-ups are a smattering of history. And they are run off like copies--"Can't Explain," "Summertime Blues," "My Wife," and "My Generation." Their essence is a fifteen second repetition of those windmill chords Townshend has made famous. They succeed like calisthenics--Daltry twirls his mike, Townshend does his splits, Moon...
...other stories, rather than dealing with the fallout of Vietnam, Just draws less topical vignettes: a senator announcing his divorce ("Noone"), a Foreign Service Officer watching his career turn into a shambles ("Burns") or the crack-up of a journalist and its consequences ("The Brigadier General and the Columnist's Wife...
Ability to Govern. "Watergate is one narrow issue," declared Robert Strauss, Democratic National Party Chairman. "I think people are more disturbed about leadership, about the ability to govern. There was some fallout from Watergate, but it isn't a panacea. I don't see any national significance...