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Nothing is wrong with the source material, which has inspired countless other stage adaptations. Franz Kafka's story of a man who one day wakes up as a giant insect has provided one of the 20th century's hallmark nightmare images. The essence of the horror is that there is no explanation for it, no deeper meaning, no instructive or redemptive metaphor: the suffering just is. In the transmutation of Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS...
This scattershot approach makes it difficult to achieve the cynically effective manipulation of TV coverage that was a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Sununu and White House imagemeister Steve Studdert express disdain for the obsessive attention to television and press coverage under Reagan. But a former top Reagan official points out that "control of the evening news and the headlines is one of the few tools available" for a President who was elected without any specific mandate, whose political opposition controls both houses of Congress, and who has little federal money with which to buy votes...
HOME FIRES BURNING (CBS, Jan. 29, 9 p.m. EST). A small-town Southern family sees its comfortable life changed by World War II. Barnard Hughes and Sada Thompson star in this Hallmark Hall of Fame drama...
...host of previously undisclosed rules governing everything from wages to repatriation of profits. As once hidden regulations come to light, such snags should become a thing of the past, though the transition to openness may take some time. After all, says Gelatt, "freedom of information is not a hallmark of Chinese society...
Harvard prides itself on diversity: "Diversity is the hallmark of the Harvard/Radcliffe experience" claims the Official Register of Harvard University. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence, in his address to the Class of 1992, lauded the diversity he saw at Harvard. He failed to mention, however, the conspicuous lack of minorities and women on his very own faculty...