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...operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself is threatened. These are the trappings of a Graham Greene moral thriller, but Herbert moves them into the arena of science fiction with some frightening speculations on medical warfare and some chilling ideas about the future imperfect, a hazardous place even without the threat of a nuclear holocaust...
There, things go awry by going modern. Rooney is the biographer of basements, the cataloguer of dresser drawers, and memorializer of saved string. His loyalty extends in many directions: to his overstuffed, imperfect house ("I like it about fifty percent more than I did when the bank owned part of it"); to his clothes (many of his 19 socks do not match) and even to memory loss ("My favorite color is dark green, but I forget why"). Rooney has a misplaced fealty to conglomerated America as well. "If the bank doesn't know me by name," he writes...
...though, Boston theatergoers will have to resign themselves to a somewhat imperfect theatrical experience, a small price to play for seeing the show here at all. Several minor performances, especially Jill Geddes' as Peron's former mistress, rival those of the leads. Above all else, Webber's consistently haunting and melodic score makes an Evita ticket a worthy investment...
...accusing their attackers of killing the bearer of bad news. When consumer advocates marshalled statistics to show that SAT scores are closely linked with family income, the testers came right back with evidence that family income corresponds just as closely to a host of other academic indicators. In an imperfect society, they argued and argue, the poor simply are unlikely to receive as good an education as the rich. The SAT only illustrates that fact...
tenderly by some of Reagan's supporters and even a few of his adversaries. It is that he has also escaped his obsession with being consistent. Reagan believes inconsistency discredited Jimmy Carter. That bit of history has some truth, but, as always, one bit is an imperfect guide for other times. Carter was perceived to change positions not for the nation's good but for his personal political fortunes. If Ronald Reagan understood what he said...