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...hyperboles cast off like arpeggios. Without missing a joke, Bawtree plays for something subtler-a humor that permits, above all, modulations into the lyrical, his favorite key. In the finely staged entrances and exits, the elegant circlings of wits and their ladies, here is theater as sophisticated as a minuet by Mozart...
Next Plane. Extradition is, by theory and by treaty, a judicial and diplomatic minuet, in which all the refinements are respected. In practice, as the narcotics cases suggest, it is often otherwise. The formula used to be that the expelling nation put the fugitive forcefully aboard "the next direct ship." In 1930 New York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary...
Tailgating started years ago at Ivy League games, where alumni would serve genteel picnics from the backs of their station wagons. Cold chicken and Chablis was a typical menu. The Midwestern, professional football version is something else-a Polish polka rather than a minuet, New Year's Eve in Times Square rather than a polite dinner party for twelve. The super bowl of tailgating occurs when the Green Bay Packers visit the Minnesota Vikings. TIME Correspondent Marguerite Michaels attended one such blast in Bloomington, Minn. Her report...
...nodding off to sleep. The United States of America v. Daniel Ellsberg, Anthony Russo Jr.. which once held out the promise of a landmark debate over the public's right to know and the Government's need to be secretive, had instead turned into a tedious minuet, pivoting for the better part of twelve weeks around the strictly legal aspects of the case. Witnesses for the prosecution testified about fingerprints on the covers of the Pentagon Papers that allegedly proved theft by the defendants, and about blocks of text within that allegedly proved a breach of national...
Senate Pentagon Critic William Proxmire declares that "the Navy and Grumman are not slugging it out but doing a minuet to deceive the American public." Whether or not culpability extends that far, the hyphen that separates the military-industrial complex-the phrase that President Dwight D. Eisenhower popularized twelve years ago this month-may have grown one notch shorter...