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...lapses. Yet friends describe him as still capable of wielding influence. "He is the most competitive person I've ever met," says Financier Felix Rohatyn. "It was obvious that Bill was watching with a great deal of sorrow and frustration as this great enterprise that he built began to fray at the edges...
...Africa's blacks have long been afforded to Western playgoers by Athol Fugard, two of whose works -- The Island and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead -- also emerged from township improvisations. But Woza Afrika! promises to hurl its viewers onto the other side of the fence, in the midst of the fray. Though far less polished than a Fugard play, Asinamali! is far more charged; its fury lies in its energy. Fugard's eloquent dramas turn upon the moral and emotional conundrums facing whites who wish to choose the right way; Woza Afrika! dwells on the more immediate sorrows of blacks...
...romantic, patriotic belligerence of the Stateside noncombatant. His writing at this period sometimes lapsed into a chatty journalese. A few months before, in Algeria, sounding like a reporter quoting a football coach, he had written cheerily of wounded soldiers who were "busting to get back into the fray again." This was the conventional remark to make about wounded soldiers. But the peppy "busting" clanks falsely against the too elegant "fray," and what is suggested is a well-meaning visitor standing ill at ease in a hospital ward, not knowing what...
...Koepp professes to be interested more in journalistic than in sartorial brilliance. Says he: "When I lived in the Midwest, I bought my clothes at Sears, but I did buy a Lauren shirt five years ago at a factory outlet in Connecticut. Only now is the shirt beginning to fray." Perhaps this exposure to current fashion will tempt him to consider replacing it before too many more years...
...sparks generated by the Tennessee case have drawn two powerful lobbying outfits into the legal fray. People for the American Way, a civil liberties group, has marshaled resources to help defend the Hawkins County schools. Charges P.A.W. President Anthony Podesta: "If the Fundamentalists are successful, they will have established a right to a sectarian education in the public schools." But to the Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, the case represents a basic fight over religious freedom and the right to control the education of one's children. In a fund-raising letter, C.W.A. Founder Beverly LaHaye called...