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...Lamp, whose entrances and exits have been hilariously choreographed by Bonnie Zimmering as a series of campy musical-comedy moves, half-heartedly tossed off by the very tall and funny Kate Levin--elaborately bored, I guess, is how you'd describe her. She comes equipped with an ingeni(e)ous echo, a snotty little girl's voice placed piercingly over the audience. Most of the other special effects have a deliberately plodding quality: the magician is lowered--haltingly--from the splashy proscenium on a "magic carpet"; an actor stands on a platform that is then turned round and round...
...ability of the U.S. to deal with those regions ten or 20 years from now will depend hi part on the vigor of Arabic and Slavic studies around the country. A presidential commission correctly concluded hi 1979 that "American incompetence in foreign languages is nothing short of scandal ous and it is becoming worse." One so bering example: when a Soviet soldier hi Afghanistan briefly sought asylum at the U.S. embassy hi Kabul last Sep tember, not one American official there could communicate with the would-be defector in Russian...
...strikes me that the question of Christmas trees at Harvard transcends the issue of separation of Church and State. After all, the Christmas tree is a token of the relig ous beliefs of a large faction of civil society. In a pluralistic system of the Hegelian mode, public expenditure for Christmas trees would not seem to violate the conception of the modern state as the embodiment of the apex of the free spirit. I realize that this may be a questionable contention. But it strikes me that Ms. Reisman's point of view reflects outmoded natural law thought...
...more limited current study of 367 children in the same grades in an upper-class Boston suburb (whose parents voted almost 2 to 1 for Nixon in 1972) shows a complete reversal. The President is now seen as what Arterton calls "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and danger ous." Where only 7% of the fourth-graders said of President Kennedy in 1962 that "he is not one of my favorites," 70% of Arterton's fourth-graders now hold that negative opinion of Nixon...
...chicken (and maybe too sensible?) to try streaking ourselves. So rather than be left out in the cold (figuratively streaking, of course), we naturally turn to streak jokes. Although habit-forming, there is no evidence that streak-joking is hazard ous to your health. Examples...