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Pontifell, who founded a smallscale publishing house called Thornwillow Press in 1985, plans to release 2000 of the 44-page books, which outline Kohl's vision for a unified Germany within the framework of Europe. The books also contain a short introduction by the German chancellor...
...there in large numbers. From Truman to Nixon, U.S. Presidents propped up undemocratic and unpopular South Vietnamese regimes and lied about the extent of American participation in the war. In the 1960s these immoral policies, justified only by anticommunist rhetoric and concerns about U.S. prestige and hegemony, composed the framework of anti-war protest...
...author of Serpico and The Valachi Papers is a natural for this kind of material. In a Child's Name crackles with narrative energy, but some readers may wonder to what purpose the book was written, other than to serve as a framework for the inevitable screenplay. Maas suggests that the case "concerns what we as a nation were supposed to be all about" but never really explains how or why. Although Taylor is a psychotic monster, there is nothing epic about his depravity, and Maas never solves the mystery of this man's heart of darkness...
...Hungary and Poland are still apprehensive about the intentions of their big neighbors, Germany and the Soviet Union. They want to keep the U.S. engaged as a counterweight, preferably through NATO. The Soviets, for their part, also want continued American participation -- and investment -- in Europe, but not through the framework of the Atlantic alliance that, as they see it, was created with the sole purpose of confronting them...
There's a lot of posturing in director Woody Hill's staging of Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Rather too much posturing, actually. Given an intriguing theme and an even more intriguing framework within which to stage the play, Hill opts for a stark presentation suffused in its own bitterness. The director seems to strike a flat emotional pitch in all the players of this production, and most emotional nuances are, as a result, lost. In Betrayal, rigid staging unfortunately replaces audience interpretation with directorial determinism...