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...Kevin-Anthony Close and Monica Dorten, perched on stools in one corner of a vast blue stage that projects out into the audience like a table, the two actors seem like lambs ready to be sacrificed. But they pull it off. Clad in overstaffed purple tunics, cousins to the Fruit of the Loom grapes, they whisper hilarious jibberish to each other at the approach of a hungry fox, then break out into a scornful jive patois when the fox can't leap far enough to pluck them from their vise. Close and Dotten fill up the stage with their voices...
...Britons had asked to be served typical California food onshore. That explains, for instance, the ultrahip luncheon salad planned at the Los Angeles Music Center: red lettuce leaves crammed with pieces of pink grape fruit, strawberries, avocado and exquisite Enoki mushrooms. Explained Caterer Nicole Cottrell: "We couldn't serve a tiny bird because it could shoot across her plate...
...playwright, Williams had the minor defects of his major virtues. He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed. Occasionally, his characters were too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols sometimes multiplied like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger was the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art, whose tendency has been to gaze inward and contemplate the artist's ego, as well as his navel, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Almost inevitably, he suffered the attrition of dramatic power that afflicts most...
...secret discussions bore fruit last Thursday in a meeting in the Speaker's office that included O'Neill, Stockman, Democratic Whip Thomas Foley, Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas and Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Darman and Kenneth Duberstein. The $4.3 billion package, which will create only 125,000 new jobs, contains less than first meets the eye. It is mainly the acceleration of scheduled projects, and thus involves only about $700 million in new spending. But from a symbolic standpoint, it allows the Democrats to claim a victory for the jobless while allowing Reagan to meet...
...guard, she relaxed her crooked smile, and her eyes-which she still carefully made up with kohl-seemed to stream with light. There was something almost inhuman about her fragility. . . She was, in fact, dying of malnutrition. After the asparagus season was over she lived exclusively on glasses of fruit and vegetable juice, ampules of gelée royale, oysters and dry biscuits...