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Driving home, you watch six a.m. break through the fog in Connecticut. The sun comes up flaming red-orange, burning the mist from the tops of the trees. And you think again of the fertility of the seen at the fountain, the richness of people getting themselves back to the garden. The weight of politics and politicians falls away for a moment, and the "maybe" sounds again...
...SEAGULL reaches its climax with Arkadina's line to Trigorin, "I'm the only who knows the truth about you." But the candor of detached analysis is only more sophisticated romantic illusion. Self-revelation is a mist of uncynical dream and deception. And this leads to the main reason why the audience feels depressed rather than exhilarated by a Chekhov comedy. The audience can rarely indulge in detached laughter at the characters' expense, because there is no comic spectacle of abstracted human follies on stage, only a concentration of suggestions and perceptions of errors which the audience understand no more...
...Soviets now spend $16 billion v. the U.S.'s $13 billion. Much of this effort is defensive. To blind American radar, the Soviets have developed a metallic radar chaff that forms an impenetrable curtain in the air. When the invasion of Czechoslovakia began, the Russians used this "metallic mist" to blind Western radar while Soviet transports swept into Prague airport. The Soviets are working on an anti-satellite that can examine U.S. spies-in-the-sky and knock them down. They are putting into service a Mach 3 twin-finned MIG-23, primarily a bomber killer, and are developing...
...engulfed in mist, sit down to wait until the fog clears." There are, however, a few details that will not wait. The U.S.-Japan mutual security treaty comes up for reconsideration in June; Sato intends to keep it in effect, though the negotiations are likely to be punctuated by student demonstrations. Sato's majority in the Diet rules out serious parliamentary oppo sition, and now that he has secured the return of Okinawa from the U.S., the protests may be muted as well...
Engulfed in Mist...