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...COMIC relief comes never too soon in the person of Rough (that's right), a feisty and eccentric ole London detective, who sweeps in with a bottle of Scotch whiskey and the story of an ancient crime commited right in Mrs. Manningham's parlor. John Guerrasio brings the play to life with his odd characterization. Mrs. Manningham settles down, Mr. Manningham's motives are revealed, and Rough sprouts about the stage with his Holmesian moustache and pipe, becoming both the saving touch of credibility to the play, but also the final measure of mystery that escalates this belated tale...
Carter often seems unwilling to offend his close advisers. Partly as a result, the Administration has taken inconsistent or variable stands on a number of important issues. Examples: It first advocated and then dropped a $50-per-person tax rebate; it originally warned Americans that the need to save energy was the moral equivalent of war, then claimed that its energy program would not be much of a burden because it would cut costs to consumers; it enraged the Israelis and confused the Arabs by its tangled statements about the Palestinians. Such irritating zigzagging has led one Democratic Senator...
...newsmen chose to protect their sources rather than respond in person to charges they dismissed as meritless. But the prosecutor used the trial to blast the "bourgeois" press for pouring "barrels of black paint on a foreign country." And the dissident in question, convicted Georgian Nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia, duly appeared in court, accompanied by two guards, viewed the film of his confession, and pronounced it undoctored...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld -Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad First Person Rural, Noel Perrin Reflections, Waller Benjamin Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
JUDY GARLAND would have understood; so would Mickey Rooney. In the warm Weather, after all, a college person's fancy turns to thoughts of do-it-yourself--that's why we had all those nauseating college films of the late '30s. "My dad's got a barn," Mickey would volunteer, and My Mom's got a sewing machine for making costumes," Judy would chime in, and before the audience had time to groan at the sheer corniness of it all, they would have A SHOW. Well, it's 40 years later now and the lure of Ziegfeld has given...