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...Viet Nam veteran in New York City spends all his days on his back porch, throwing lighted matches into a pail. Another has not been out of his house in ten years: a literal hostage to the war that goes banging on in his own mind. Robert Moore, 32, spent eight years hiding at home, before he joined a VA-supported outreach center in Queens. There, he and two other veterans work as a team to locate similar cases of radical withdrawal ?men hunkered down in their little psychic tunnels, like Viet Cong staying safe from all that American...
...totally new type of commercial, or "informercial" as they call them, that will soon be used widely on cable television. These will range in length from 30 minutes to four hours. Sears, for example, could buy half an hour of air time to explain how to redecorate a porch, with Sears paint and Craftsman tools, of course. Ads comparing brand-name products, extolling the merits of one over the other, could be dealt with in laborious detail. Says Michael Dann, senior program adviser to ABC's Video Enterprises: "The advertiser who wants to spell out the differences between Phillips...
...quiet Friday evening a snarling 60-lb. dog-part shepherd, part collie-sat itself on the front porch of Pauline Maerker's house in the small (pop. 10,000), southern Illinois farm community of Murphysboro. When Maerker's daughter, Ruth Ann, 27, tried to walk out of the house, the animal's angry growl drove her back. When her son, Harold, 42, opened the door, the dog leaped at him. Only the screen saved him. Fifteen minutes later, the police came, tranquilized the dog, then took it away for testing. The animal, part of a pack that...
...back porch, for 42 remaining sophomores, the suspense has reached its most pitiless climax. Since almost everyone who was inside has gone home now and the porch has long been growing chilly, the 100 percenters are permitted to move into the Ivy dining room. They can see the silver candelabras now and the rows of empty bottles. Prospect had electric lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to 35 as the discouraging hours pass, then 6 give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another 6 are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent...
...well in articulating the separateness of the scenes, which Wilson has ordered just arbitrarily enough to prove to skeptics that, yes, this is art. She is helped enormously by Wayne Kramer's set, which suspends translucent panes to suggest, in turn, a church, a court, a restaurant, or a porch; it simply but effectively divides up the stage to focus attention Kornetsky's tableaux. Reflecting off the background windows, the lighting works with the set to emphasize the moments of tension. But what really makes the staging work is Kornetsky's blocking, which moves Rimer's many characters between...