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...perhaps the real charm of the play is its elusiveness of view-point. If it seems at times to mock the absurdities of love--Matt exclaims of a wall the fathers built between the lovers' houses, "they built it ages ago... last month"--in the end, it reaffirms a sort of worldly-wise romanticism. In one of the funniest numbers of the play, El Gallo shows Luisa the splendors of the world, and gives her a mask to wear whenever a fire or assault mars the picture. Such sarcastic images continually surface whenever the play's world-view seems...
Later that night, at a party at the home of NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, 49, ABC's David Brinkley, 61, who ended a 37-year NBC career last September in a dispute with the abrasive Small, regaled the guests with a mock press release about the ousting of the executive. Describing the bitter and raucous incidents as "excessive," Small's embarrassed successor, Reuven Frank, 61, said last week: "It was as though somebody had uncorked something...
They sought to undermine the populist assumptions of transparency and subcultural identify, to mock the idea of a direct like from social experience to musical form, to expose the subjective claims deeply embedded in all rock music...
...site near Las Vegas. The projectile had no propellants, electronics or warhead, but was the same size, shape and weight as an actual MX. At left, the missile is ejected from a canister by steam and gas pressure, a system adapted from submarine missile-launching devices. As the mock-up rises into the air, some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister, begin to fall off, as all are supposed to do. In the third picture, the missile, which reached an altitude of 325 ft., tilts back toward earth; it finally falls...
...middle of 1,400-acre Balboa Park, the mock-Elizabethan building looks from the outside somewhat the way Shakespeare's own Globe was supposed to look, with leaded windows, half-timbering and a second floor jutting out over the first. It is too cute, but it is not offensive. Whatever sins have been committed on the outside have been made up for on the inside, however, where Scenic Designer Richard Hay has devised what seems to be an ideal theatrical space: 581 comfortable seats for the audience, a thrust stage for the actors, and ample room for producers...