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...restaging by David Wheeler, based on last year's production directed by Michael Bloom, takes maximum advantage of the versatile A.R.T. company. The Day Room is a play within a play within a play, a whirlwind voyage into the realm of metaphysical therapy in which the cast must shed their identities more rapidly than a den of snakes. And the cast, without exception, demonstrates chameleonlike skill...
Gary Hart beginning to fade unless the tops of his ears appear from under his 1960s mod hairdo. Chuck Robb, Richard Gephardt and Bill Bradley neatly trimmed for maximum political appeal, rising steadily. Sam Nunn consigned to the campaign basement unless the sides and back of his shag are thinned. George Bush ("really great") and Bob Dole ("styled very well") streamlined and sailing smartly into the political winds. Pete du Pont, Al Haig and Don Rumsfeld rightly barbered to take the course should the others falter. Jack Kemp, splendidly styled for football, left in the locker room instead...
...weary-looking Steen, reading from a statement in a monotone, said on yesterday's videotape: "If our lives are important to America, it must order Israel to release the 400 Palestinians as soon as possible--that is, Monday as a maximum...
That theme will undoubtedly be struck in the weeks ahead as the mutineers try to steer clear of punishment. Given Ramos' and Ileto's soft treatment of the dissident troops, it is possible that Aquino will find herself without their support in pushing for maximum penalties. If she steps back from her firm pledge to hold those involved to the "fullest account," she is certain to hear from leftist quarters. "If she can't make these guys face a firing squad," snipes a student leader, "the least she can do is arrest them...
...monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed to eat, gorged themselves till they burst. Having outlawed all emotion and distinction, the Khmer Rouge found that they had also abolished all expertise, so that the "whole society was working at maximum -- and brutally enforced -- inefficiency." And even after the murderers were routed, there was no release: the Cambodians who were still left found themselves squeezed between their two bitter enemies, the Thais and the Vietnamese. Those who survived the degradation, May admits, did so only by embracing...