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Members of the Moslem Iranian Students Society yesterday held an anti-Khomeini demonstration--including a mock torture chair, a jail, and the Ayatollah in effigy--in Brattle Square...
...choruses, Rochberg is especially skillful; indeed the final chorus, extolling the virtue of confidence, recalls the Falstaffian spirit of Verdi. For the interpolated minstrel show-the liveliest and dramatically most effective scene, although almost entirely unrelated to the rest of the work-Rochberg has composed memorably effervescent mock folk music...
...life into a soap opera and putting its popular conventions to higher literary uses. Banalities become oddly resonant and trivialities bristle with jeopardy. Episodes of scandal, lunacy and mayhem are drawn together by the two main story lines. A romance between Mario, 18, and Julia, 32, is a mock cliffhanger; the rise and fall of Pedro Camacho, a compulsive writer of soap-opera scripts, is a comic tale with tragic relief...
After the shelling ended, residents of West Beirut again displayed their resilience, thronging the streets to perform their shopping rounds. Occasionally, the supersonic scream of an Israeli jet on a mock bombing run caused a momentary flutter of panic. Most people ignored the threat of renewed fighting, taking advantage of the lull to stock up on supplies from East Beirut...
...colonel regarded Samer with mock intensity...