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...approach to acting and believers in the Actors Studio "method" of fusing a character with one's own psyche; between "realist" writers who seek to simulate life and "theatricalists" who emphasize that they are staging an artifice, a show. He unflatteringly evokes such figures as Walter Kerr and Mary Martin, and demonstrates by his own example that success in the theater is neither enduring nor necessarily lucrative...
...Soviets' plan for reaching a nuclear-free utopia by 2000 and wonders if the scheme is a genuine breakthrough or simply a propaganda ploy. Kansas Republican Bob Dole, the acerbic Senate Majority Leader, braces for a run at the presidency. America honors the birthday of slain Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday...
...worldly power; his clout came from the urgency of his message and his unwavering moral courage. Of this century's heroes, the man he most closely resembled was his model, India's Mohandas K. Gandhi. Combining Christian idealism with Gandhi's principle of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakened the conscience of the U.S. and the world to the plight of America's blacks. More than any other single person, King was responsible for the endowment with legal equality of a people who had been enslaved for two centuries, then denied many of their country...
...David Martin, head of the Government Ethics Office, recommended that the Justice Department investigate Deaver's lobbying contract with the Canadian government. Present law permanently bars a U.S. Government official who "participated personally and substantially" in handling an issue from later lobbying on that same issue. Deaver insists that in the White House he was only tangentially concerned with U.S.-Canadian relations, but others have reported that he helped to choose an envoy to negotiate with Ottawa on acid-rain problems. A Canadian government spokesman denied a Washington Post report that Deaver had begun negotiating to sign up Canada...
Television commercials have lambasted the Congressman as a Washington insider not to be trusted, a turncoat conservative who voted for "Tip O'Neill's budget," the surrender of the Panama Canal and a national holiday commemorating Martin Luther King's birthday. The most damaging blow, however, may be Funderburk's recent contention that Broyhill wants to set up two nuclear-waste sites in the state. Actually, Broyhill introduced legislation to establish a waste site in the West; the bill was later amended in the Senate to set up a second site, not necessarily in North Carolina...