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...repeat performance, but this time the Administration was more forthcoming. When Ronald Reagan walked into the press conference he called to discuss the denouement of the Achille Lauro hijacking, he was wearing a flesh- colored bandage on his nose. He opened with a jocular announcement: another cancerous growth had been removed, and "I can stand before you proudly and say my nose is clean...
...four days of frustration, horror and humiliation, an all-too-familiar progression in the recent history of international terrorism. Once again Arab extremists had struck at a vulnerable civilian target. A few hours after it left Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead...
OPEN ADMISSIONS by Shirley Lauro...
...educational policy from which this play takes its title are lies. Ginny Carlsen is a white college teacher reduced to showing students how to project an educated image for personnel directors, but prevented from providing substantial learning to sustain their careers or their lives. Playwright Shirley Lauro also has a second meaning in mind for her title, as she crudely but forcefully maneuvers her principal characters toward open admissions of their mutual victimization...
That confrontation constituted the sum total of Lauro's one-act play produced off Broadway in 1981; one can see why she was encouraged to develop it to full length for Broadway. Calvin and Ginny may be symbolic representations, but they are also potent characters in their own right. The student's basic gentleness makes his rage, when it surfaces, all the more terrible to behold. The teacher's harassed decency makes the brisk cheer with which she tries to sell deceit to her self and her students the more poignant...