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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOTH ENHANCING AND confusing the plot are Eleanor and James' psychological doubles. It's difficult to further describe these quasispirits, and one of the play's main faults is that you never know exactly what the doppelgangers are meant to represent. The doubles sometimes play actual physical parts in the play--for instance, when James' double (Kerry Osborne) speaks to Kate on the telephone--but most of the time James and Eleanor neither see nor hear their spiritual analogues...
Ripich was too hard on herself for refusing what appeared to be an invitation to have a drink with the man mistakenly collared by the policeman. She wonders if the man only meant to thank her for getting the policeman away from him. No way! The way to say "Thank you for getting that policeman off my back" is not to ask a woman out to a bar. It certainly does not involve chasing after the woman until she screams "No! Just get away from me!" when she has already made it clear that she wants to be left alone...
Americans are inclined to support "freedom fighters," but the Reagan Doctrine addresses only one kind: those fighting "Soviet-supported aggression." In practice this has meant anti- Communist guerrillas in four countries (Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia and Nicaragua), all of whom the Administration is now assisting either overtly or covertly...
...peaceful transition to a new government" in the Philippines? While the two men talked, Laxalt said later, it became apparent that Marcos was "hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws." He asked whether the reference to a "peaceful transition" meant he should stay on until 1987, when his current term was originally supposed to end, and he wondered whether some sort of power-sharing arrangement with the Philippine opposition could be worked...
...Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that "a lot of guys cry." Buckley Gillock of Virginia speaks for generations of Greeks when he describes why he cares so deeply about being a Kappa Alpha: "It's meant making the best friends I've had so far in my life, and probably the best friends I'll ever have...