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...Cardinal Sins shocked many with its tortured, bisexual archbishop, whose encounters with women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife (contrary to Greeley's mock self-review) is in fact a better, more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes...
...system: four U.S.-built E-2C Hawkeye surveillance planes, each able to track 250 enemy aircraft up to 300 miles away. In addition, Israel's pilots are among the best in the world. No fighter pilots have more intensive training-in ground practice with computerized simulators, in mock air battles against captured MiGs and in actual combat. If the Israeli claims that they destroyed 79 Syrian aircraft in last week's battles while losing only one themselves are to be believed, the training has paid...
...Bundestag Deputies interrupted Reagan with applause 21 times. At one point, Karl-Heinz Hansen, a Deputy who had been expelled from Schmidt's Social Democratic Party because of his anti-NATO views, cried, "El Salvador." Reagan paused and mock-innocently asked, "Is there an echo in here?" The Deputies showed their approval of this skillful handling of a heckler with laughter and cheers...
Occasionally a mock show of support is used to taunt the regime. Students who must take military courses at Warsaw University disturb lectures by applauding every mention of the Soviet Union. Theatergoers have proved more boisterous, hooting and clapping at the appearance of actors and musicians who have publicly expressed support for martial law. Many show-business professionals boycott official television broadcasts. Painters now consider public exhibitions to be in bad taste: when the Ministry of Culture mounted a retrospective show of modern Polish art last April, some angry artists demanded that their canvases not be hung...
...being celebrated this year, conducted the premiere of The Rake in Venice in 1951, and the work has acquired the status of a classic among the composer's admirers. But Russell, ever the iconoclast, has turned it upside down. The jejune quality of Stravinsky's cool, mock-Mozartian music is engulfed in a rush of theatrical inventiveness that is often sensitively analytical, at times tasteless and, in the end, dramatically convincing-not an easy task with this opera...