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...height of the 1971 Broadway season, Kalem's satisfaction over his successful trek is a bit diluted by some of the shows he sees. Still, he cannot abandon the belief that theater "is the noblest of arts, a metaphysical ritual, an unbound volume of erotica, a childlike festival of clowns and kings, a never-surfeiting banquet for the eye, the ear and at times the soul...
When Joan arrived in Washington, the youngest-and some thought the prettiest-of the Kennedy wives, she entered the world of the Kennedys at its dazzling height. Now, nine years, two assassinations and a fatal accident later, that has all changed. She knows the hatred and passions the Kennedy name inspires, lives daily with the threats that come with unnerving frequency against her husband's life. "I don't want to be First Lady," she has said repeatedly, and her friends believe her. Says one intimate: "She is terrified that things are moving in such a way that...
...curriculum is all business. "We start with the basics," she says, "positions and formations." Already her pupils are at ease with such knowing terms as flares and neutral zones. To help them one-up their friends, Mrs. Laurini tosses in such statistical tidbits as the average height and weight of defensive tackles in the league...
Scarcely two years ago, at the height of the excitement over the huge oil strike on Alaska's North Slope, as many as 2,000 men swarmed around two dozen drilling rigs, preparing to tap the largest known oil reservoir in North America. This week, as the sun drops out of the northern sky, not to rise again for almost two months, fewer than 200 men are left, and only two rigs are rumbling in the icy darkness...
...foot will be searched by patrolling British troops, or stopped half a dozen times in half a mile by I.R.A. women vigilantes, or even get caught in a sudden crossfire. Every night in the slums off Falls Road, all the walls at street corners are painted white to head height so that I.R.A. snipers can more easily spot troops on night patrol. The army usually repaints the walls in the morning, and the vigilantes repaint them again in the evening...