Word: jericho
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...heaven breaks loose on the stage. This cast is so agile that it defies the laws of gravity, and the singers have such richly resonant voices that they could bring down the walls of Jericho. Everyone is splendid, and Micki Grant may prove to be a major find for the musical theater. Her lyrics for this revue-styled musical are witty and intelligent, her tunes melodiously winning. She is also a marvelously gifted performer who can sing her own numbers as if they were intimate love letters addressed to each playgoer in the house. She helps to make this...
...would keep a strip of fortified settlements along the Jordan River to safeguard its borders. There would be no separate Palestinian state, but the people of the West Bank would retain their Jordanian citizenship and they would have access to the East Bank by means of a corridor at Jericho between the Israeli border settlements...
Nearly finished is the road that rolls along the sea from Jericho to Eilat, which before Israel renamed it in 1949 was an Arab police post known, deliciously, as Umm Rashrash. Eilat is already a thriving resort. New motels line its shore and hippies occupy its beaches. But Eilat is strategically important too. The glass-bottom boats that take tourists out to marvel at the Gulf of Aqaba's coral formations rock in the swells of supertankers bringing Persian Gulf oil into Eilat to be. pipelined to the Mediterranean...
MILTON YELLIN Jericho...
...snow-battle of Jericho Turnpike was over. Trembling and wobbly-weary the legions trudged back, herculean shields of Samsonite luggage, the women wailing and dabbing at their curls. The bodies of Buicks, carcasses of Cadillacs, spoke amber bitter broken words. In the deep brown-lit bar the Gulf-men, Shell-men, Mobil-mechanics leaned at the frosty windows like Gods, laughing lordly as the mortals squirmed and fell...