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...clear from watching Ben Halley Jr. and John Bottoms milk every metaphysical nugget of relevance out of this 1956 script that "Endgame" does not wear well in the postmodern and post-Cold War age. "Endgame," even more than the 1953 "Waiting for Godot," is a product of that decade, innovative for its time, but now hackneyed and cliched three decades after The Big Fear first osmotically seeped its way into the popular psyche...
WHILE the world focused on the successful windup of the Viet Nam cease-fire negotiations last week, the subtle volleying between East and West that may make 1973 what Henry Kissinger called "the year of Europe" entered a chilly new phase. The talks that will set the shape of post-cold war Europe have not even yet begun. Already, though, the Soviets seem to have grabbed an advantage-one that will force some sharp reassessments of the West's ability to translate detente into an era of genuinely relaxed tensions along the Continent's military and ideological frontiers...