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...final, fatal moments, Home Front goes as berserk as Jeremy, waving a handgun of political didacticism at the audience, turning the American homestead into a Freudian minefield. Here Jeremy is less the middle class's guilty secret than, in his sister's words, "a terminal jerk"; and Dad must expose himself as a paranoiac patriarch whose home is his castle, moated by ignorance. For the two hours preceding this pirouette into psychodrama, Home Front is fiercely sympathetic to all of its characters. Beneath Mom's lyrical ditsiness and Dad's clumsy evasions are two frightened people who care, beyond words...
...seven "Wartime Stories" are fatalistic evocations of the unglamorous and sometimes deadly aspects of life during wartime: foraging for food, crossing a minefield, running messages for the Resistance. The worst shot in a village hunts a German soldier in "The Animal Woods," a zoological Times Square of distracting animals. This neo-folktale is an early sign of the interest that led Calvino to compile the "Italian Folktales," the greatest collection of folklore since the Brothers Grim...
...mysterious blasts since early July. According to Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence, an arm of Lloyd's of London, the hazardous zones appear to be at the northern and southern ends of the Red Sea. One Dutch captain reported that his cargo ship was "mixed up in a minefield" off the coast of North Yemen, as reported by Lloyd...
...company was "a minefield of personal intrigue and corporate politics," according to newly named Atari President John Farrand. Concurs Atari's top scientist, Alan Kay: "For a while, the company was playing 'Ha, ha, your end of the boat is sinking.' " But when the bad news became clear last fall, it turned out that everyone was in the same boat...
...transfer of power is now going on as far down as the six-man oligarchy of Peking can reach. But it is so delicate that their government tiptoes as if through a minefield. To talk about this process, I called on Huan Xiang, a vice president of the Academy of Social Sciences in Peking. Huan too had been humiliated, purged and rusticated. After the Gang of Four was wiped out, he came back to Peking. The old soldiers knew that matters had gone wrong ?but only scholars could say how and why. So they called in the scholars, Huan...