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Then Pirandello's characters appear. Dressed in black, swaying against a white background, they know how to make a dramatic entrance. They have interrupted the rehearsal in order to convince the A.R.T. actors to play out their story, a tragicomic family drama of incest, betrayal and death. Finally convinced that...

Author: By Ted Osius, | Title: Double Vision | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

It is the black workers in South Africa who will deal the deathblow to apartheid, but as fellow members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee noted earlier this year, Damon Silvers of the DSA cannot bring himself to support the heroic struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) and instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fake Leftist Pipe Dreams' | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

Still unaware of the forces playing about him, he achieves the illusion of redemption through 15 years of backroads wanderings, false heroic regeneration by using his magic bat as a kind of Excalibur, leading the aptly named New York Knights on a charge out of the league cellar toward the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Swinging for the Fences | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

Unfortunately a feasible ABM system remains a dream. It is the modern-day version of the French Maginot line--a large and expensive shield that will give us the illusion of safety, but will fail us should the final crisis ever come. Even the attempt to erect a ballistic missile...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Space Cadet | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

The claim that an allegedly "abysmal record" on "Black-Jewish relations" nullifies the many laudable aspects of the Jackson campaign is both ludicrous and arrogant. First, the existence of genuine "Black-Jewish relations" which Reverend Jackson could have damaged is simply an illusion from which we urge Hirschorn to free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense Of Jackson | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

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