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SWEDEN. The country is a model for feminist groups around the world. In order to prod husbands into encouraging wives to take a job, the tax laws have been rewritten so that next year married men will be taxed at the same rate as bachelors-a financial jolt to men with non-working wives. Stay-at-home wives are frowned on as "luxury housewives" by the ruling Social Democrats. Sweden's education system recently has been deliberately changed to eliminate the differences in the assumed "sex roles." Schoolboys do needlework and study homemaking, while the girls take courses...
...brocade of metaphors. Was that a rooster's crow? No, it was "the pickaxe voice of a cock, beginning to break up the night." Did it rain? No, "the heavens emptied their pots." Fry uses such figures of speech-more figures than speech-in an attempt to jolt his audience into a fresh recognition of commonplace truths...
...White House and read past midnight. Next morning, he summoned Rogers, Kissinger and Laird to give them the news: not only would U.S. advisers accompany ARVN troops into Cambodia, but the American-led Fishhook attack would be staged a day later as a second and even more unexpected jolt to the Communists. The orders were quickly passed to a delighted South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. As Nixon retired to the luxuriant White House Rose Garden to work on his speech, U.S. warplanes and artillery began softening up the sanctuaries...
...play about a play in which psychotics (Marat is played by a paranoiac who is in turn played by John Mckean) act out Sade's own recreation of the Revolution. Occasionally one can get lost somewhere in between the levels. To this, Bernstein has added a particular jolt by having William Liller, Master of Adams House, play Coulmier, Master of the Charenton asylum. Liller is a natural...
...fine in itself, there is no preparation for the scene in the hour and a quarter preceding it. And, in the second act, the ambiguous resolution (of Robert's attitude towards marriage) has no real build-up-so little, in fact, that the ending comes as something of a jolt and a cop-out. Part of this problem lies with the character of Robert, who is more of an attitude than a human being. We know too little about him; he usually reacts to rather than creates the action...