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...play? He returned to play a man ranked 101st in the world and, except for a couple of games in which Spassky was frankly inept, their play has been roughly even. By world championship standards, Fischer's game has been inferior -- some flashes of brilliance, but some appallingly weak play as well...
...does network TV reflect a liberal sensibility? Yes, a certain political correctness does prevail around the dial. The concerns of feminists, environmental activists and oppressed minorities are given sympathetic treatment; big corporations are usually portrayed as villains; government bureaucrats are typically inept or uncaring. But this is probably due less to political calculation than to dramatic necessity. Artists tend to gravitate toward humanistic concerns rather than institutional ones; pitting an underdog against the system always makes for a better story. This is not necessarily proof of liberal bias any more than the proliferation of TV shoot-'em-ups means that...
Even after the Vietnamese decamped, skinheads fought nightly battles with the police. Local officials sought to excuse the inept handling of the riots by blaming an influx of rightists from Berlin and Hamburg. But local residents didn't help matters much. Crowds of Rostockers let the rock throwers disappear into their midst when chased by police, cheering on the skinheads and screaming "Germany for the Germans!" Hundreds of rioters were arrested, and hundreds of police were injured in the fighting...
...Corporation, the oddball agency cobbled together in 1989 to undertake the largest federal bailout ever, to liquidate more than 800 savings and loans without a hitch. And the dubious were right. From the beginning, the RTC, whose charter is to find and prosecute the crooked, the greedy and the inept among the nation's thrift managers, has been dogged by questions of efficiency, propriety and conflict of interest. Last week three RTC attorneys had more bad news; they testified on Capitol Hill that they had been blocked from prosecuting former S&L officials...
CARMEN is quintessential opera that virtually performs itself. So irresistible are its melodies, so forceful is the drama, so primal the emotions, that it's hard for even an inept production to miss. Over the years, Bizet's masterpiece has been adapted, updated, mutilated, so it is refreshing that the New York City Opera has a new version (performances till November) that plays it straight. It helps to have a Carmen who dominates the stage, and Sharon Graham, a young American, scores high. With a fluid, supple mezzo, she revels in the gypsy girl's fatal craving for freedom...