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...embittered children of the '70s. We've redonned three-piece suits and high-heeled shoes. Tequila sunrises have given way to vodka martinis, love beads to lustrous pearls. We buy lettuce and grapes either because we've forgotten that we shouldn't or because Cesar Chavez's cause seems hopeless or because we've ceased to care about California's farm workers. And when we scan a semi-crowded subway car, we unconciously choose a seat next to a member of our own race. Slogans linger but they no longer resound with passion. Instead, they splash across slick Madison Avenue...
Since none of the others characters in the play say more than a few words, it is hard to judge the quality of the performances of the other actors mired in this hopeless plot. Tanya Luhrmann is fine as the president's mistress, saying very little but looking lovely and excruciatingly bored with her lover's meaningless ramblings...
...Freeze [Jan. 31] shows that nature has more clout than all the oil embargoes, politicians and man-made contrivances put together. If this small show of power doesn't drive home the importance of conservation over waste, we are truly a hopeless...
...sense of imprisonment by nature and by history. In her last essay, "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force," she goes so far as to challenge Marx, arguing that force, rather than class struggle, is the key to man's fate. And since liberation from these forces is hopeless, she concluded, to deal with "affliction" man must cling to a belief in a Supernatural Good--for Simone, perhaps, to a Christian...
...perennial problem: highly taxed landlords who were unable-or too stingy-to keep antiquated furnaces repaired and fueled. More than 10,000 complaints a day overwhelmed a city hall office empowered to investigate claims of inadequate heat, make the necessary repairs and bill landlords later. Keeping up was so hopeless that five centers were opened in churches and community buildings to house anyone in danger of freezing. Some 200 refugees found shelter...