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...Sandinistas call their political strategy "prolonged armed struggle," a phrase that illustrates another necessary quality they possess--patience. They are to predicting any early victories. They advocate a struggle balanced between city and country, and say that at present they are warning, putting on trial and sometimes executing, particularly oppressive landlords and government officials in rural areas. Their tactics are highly imaginative: one of their December 27 demands was that the government give a pay raise to the lower ranks of the National Guard, and obvious efforts to separate the soldiers from the officers. And two weeks later, doubtless embarrassed...
Perhaps so. But the specific problem that all the Marias in this book face is the impossibility of loving someone who is seen as your enemy--who is supposed to conquer and possess you--and that is specifically a woman's problem. Eroticism becomes inextricably linked with masochism: women are fruits waiting to be sucked dry, their bodies are battlefields about to have flags implanted upon them, they are eager to "impale themselves upon an enormous pleasure." That women themselves find such images erotic is proof that they have been robbed of their own pornography...
...ships or cargo would be allowed to transit the canal, its reopening and the repopulating by Egyptians of towns along its banks have been awaited as concrete signs that Cairo prefers to pursue a policy of peace. He warned, however, that Egypt was capable of protecting the canal: "We possess a deterrent capacity that makes our enemy think twice and thrice before any rashness. Any infringement of any single position on the canal will be met with a sufficient deterrence that will even be more painful...
...Underworld, or hell, is entered through a mirror instead of over the river Styx. The two are similar, but the symbolism of Cocteau's approach is more explicit and eccentric. He imbues a pretty mundane object the mirror with suggestive properties at the moment when you no longer possess an image when you can't be reflected, you're dead Similarly. Orpheus's bloody head-- lopped off by the Bacchantes--turns into a marble bust when it's propped on a pedestal. There are plenty of strange transformations in this play, and they mingle the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland...
...opened on Oct. 13, 1962. That drama is a work of permanence, and the expressions "a Virginia Woolf couple" or a "Virginia Woolf marriage" have drifted into common parlance. In the more than twelve years that have followed, Albee has written seven plays, and all of them put together possess the cumulative magnetic impact of a shelf of dead batteries...