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...fault is so egregious, however, as the excessive length of this production. Sellar's Lear runs more than four hours. It tests our endurance with strange visual effects that add little to an understanding of the play. The notorious storm of Act III wails for an hour amidst pendulous light bulbs, harsh spotlights, rolling rocks, flickering candles, blinking headlights of a sleek Lincoln Continental, and the disturbing whine of steel cellos. Yet Sellars wants more. On comes a snake of worklights, four television sets and two Polaroid cameras with flash bulbs. Sellars uses every corner of the stage, from...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...nuclear war, both offensively and defensively, stands a better chance to emerge intact from it. It is the task of Soviet diplomacy to avert war; it is the task of the Soviet military to win it, speedily and with the least losses, should diplomacy fail. It is difficult to fault this chain of reasoning...

Author: By Richard E. Pipes, | Title: An Impossible Dream? | 2/21/1980 | See Source »

Senator Kennedy insinuated that because we had given medical treatment to the Shah that somehow the seizure of our own hostages was not the fault of the terrorists who took them, but the fault of the United States...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Danger in Paradise | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

Senator Kennedy has also said that the invasion of Afghanistan was not only not very serious but that somehow or another the Soviets were not the culpable party, but the United States was at fault, and somehow caused or contributed to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Danger in Paradise | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

...Harvard loss was not Hackett's fault. He narrowly defeated Saltzman in their 200-yd. freestyle duel and came within a tenth of a second of his lifetime best...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Racquetmen Topple Favored Tigers... While Tiger Aquamen Upset Crimson | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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