Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buchwald's first play, Sheep on the Runway, is a cartoon allegory. Flush with military hardware but low on brainpower, a group of bumbling, do-good-ing, fast-talking Americans lead a small, neutral Himalayan nation in Asia into a deadly heap of trouble. The difficulty with themes like this is that a playgoer is not quite sure whether he is experiencing the shock or the drone of recognition. An audience should never know as much as or more about a play than the playwright does...
...happen to be Israelis, whose figure sounds absurdly inflated and seems designed to pry another 25 Phantom jets from the U.S. In the end, the Israelis may have their way. Only a few weeks ago the U.S., long Israel's champion, seemed to be moving toward a more neutral position in the Middle East. Secretary of State William Rogers' peace proposals and Nixon's emphasis on "evenhandedness" underscored the shift. But domestic U.S. reaction to the French numbers game and the harshness with which both Cairo and Moscow rejected Rogers' proposals may now be compelling Nixon...
...dropped below 300,000 bbl. a day -just over one-half the prewar output. The revenue accrued to the government in Lagos, enabling it to pay for the arms that finished off the Biafrans. For the oil companies the problem was, as one executive put it last week, "staying neutral while at the same time backing the winning side...
...doing some damage to Israel. As for his own people, it matters little if they don't entirely believe everything they read about the battles, provided that the battles remain remote. "Very few Egyptians pay any attention to what is going on far from them," says a neutral military attache in Cairo. "If they did get excited about their country being at war, it would be the worst thing possible for Nasser. People would start asking what those 100,000 soldiers facing 10,000 Israelis on the canal were doing...
...Participants sit inside two large plastic bubbles and watch smaller plastic bubbles floating about in a trough of gurgling water. Ted Hallman, a Zen Buddhism enthusiast, used 100 lbs. of yarn for his African-looking hut. "My idea was to make an environment that was comfortable, soft, with neutral colors and a calming effect," he says. The hit of the show is Furniture Designer Wendell Castle's laminated oak "reclining space for one." Open a marvelously sculptured door and there is a snug, carpeted cubbyhole with furry throw pillows. A hole in the top lets in light...