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...seems weak and shaky, some leaders in the Republican-controlled Senate might well send a high-powered delegation to Reagan to plead for a revamping of the budget. Presumably, they would urge less defense spending and possibly even some tax increases to shrink the deficit. Says Laxalt: "We would owe it to the President to give him our best judgment and advise accordingly...
...match for Williamson, who plays her partner in murder. His Macbeth is skittery and jittery, a neurotic who seems to be in the midst of an identity crisis. It is a fascinating interpretation, which appears to owe something to Richard Nixon, and Williamson manages to make the familiar sound fresh and exciting. In the "Tomorrow" speech, for example, his words come out in spurts, as if they were spoken by a madman, which by that point Macbeth very nearly is. Weber, by contrast, is always predictable, and she seems to know only one way to make a point-loudly...
...Only minutes before his character was tested, he was sitting in the ordinary plane among the ordinary passengers, dutifully listening to the stewardess telling him to fasten his seat belt and saying something about the "no smoking sign." So our man relaxed with the others, some of whom would owe their lives to him. Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning. Then suddenly he knew that the trip would not be ordinary. Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes...
...only their sister can save them . . . The ancient folk tale was collected by the Grimm brothers in the 19th century; yet, in this version of The Seven Ravens (Morrow; $8.95), the principals seem as contemporary as animated cartoon characters. Lisbeth Zwerger's subdued palette and astronomical creatures owe much to Arthur Rackham, but her strange Black Forest birds and rabbits are her own and her heroine has the lineaments and verve of an '80s role model...
...they can be, but not very often. A peculiar case in point is After Rodin, one of the recent pastel drawings of a nude woman sprawled on her back, rosy, firm and decapitated. To what does this repugnant, though not very gory, piece of sadism owe its title? On the face of it, to Rodin's fondness for making fragmentary figures, headless torsos, isolated arms or legs. But then one is reminded that this, in Rodin's own day, was ceaselessly guyed by satirists as literal mutilation; so much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia...