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This time around, the AST has the services of that wonderful actor Roy Dotrice, whose portrayal of the aging John Aubrey in Brief Lives has, on four occasions, been a peak in my play going experience. If not yet in a class with Kilty and Berry, Dotrice's Falstaff (his first, I believe) is stunning all the same. He is quite at home in Falstaff's language-whether parodistic, satiric, prevaricatory, or just witty-and has amassed a line repertory of gestures and other movements to go with...
From another peak about 5,000 ft. above the valley floor, we were able to look down into Khonis, a village in which the Soviets had set up a base. Tanks with huge rollers to predetonate mines were sweeping the main road through the town. Another tank was trying to move a destroyed armored personnel carrier out of the way. Some Soviet soldiers were sitting on a large carpet they had removed from an abandoned home. In the river was the wreckage of two Soviet helicopters that had been shot down earlier in the fighting. From time to time...
...responsible researcher foresees such catastrophic consequences from El Chichón. But there are troubling signs. A huge smoglike cloud from the volcano has been spotted at scattered locations around the globe. At the Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, astronomers say the brightness of stars has been reduced by 40%, and volcanic dust has created garish sunsets over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Says Atmospheric Physicist James Pollack, of NASA's Ames Research Center, which has used U-2 aircraft to collect samples of El Chichón's dust: "This is the biggest volcanic cloud...
...Wichser incident was obviously meant to serve as a warning to foreigners, and any nationals who might befriend them, to chill such contacts. The Chinese xenophobia reached a peak during the Cultural Revolution but eased in 1976 after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Indeed, Mao's successors "rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...
...ultimate tax protest. The residents of Loyalton, S. Dak., all five of them, got together last week and passed a measure guaranteed to reduce the cost of living in their town. They voted it out of existence. There was nothing impulsive about the move. Loyalton, which reached its peak population of 180 back in 1918, closed its high school in 1945; the grade school went in 1970, and nine years ago the post office shut down. Except for two ramshackle houses and an abandoned hotel, the buildings along Main Street have surrendered to fire, tornadoes and neglect. Loyalton...