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...week's story on the beer industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A beer connoisseur since college days, Mohs has savored on his travels such exotic brews as Red China's official Tsingtao and a Thai beer called Singhe, which is reputedly one of the world's most potent. Mohs' selfless research continued during a recent weekend trip to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There he sampled several Northeastern small-brewery beers, savoring each bouquet as if it were a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Unfortunately, as his story relates, many of these regional beers could soon...
...seem odd that in a civilized society where people are beaten into submission with a fear bludgeon that fear should be the most potent subject for cinematic entertainment Uaws is already overtaking the Godfather in box-office revenues). But its appeal transcends the fright of the victim. The audience can also identify with the aggressor. You don't see the first two attacks from the victim's perspective. You don't even see the shark. What you see is a naked pair of nubile legs fluttering several feet above, or two tiny feet kicking a rubber raft a short distance...
...show arrives on Broadway this week that demonstrates all over again that the most potent theater in America is still song and dance. Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line began as the smash of the off-Broadway season (TIME, June 2). It tells a somber story, lining up 27 dancers in competition for eight roles and making them play show and tell. As each character speaks, the ambitions and frustrations of a lowly chorus dancer become synonymous with everyone's battle for a place in the sun. Yet A Chorus Line is both insouciant and seductive, full...
Still, another barrage of anti-Turkey mail is hitting Capitol Hill, and it is now up to the House of Representatives to make its difficult decision. There is no comparable Turkish lobby active in Washington. The case for Turkey is, instead, being made vociferously and with potent political arm-twisting by the Administration. As in the Senate, the final House vote is expected to be close...
...attempts, in many of the plays of Brecht to keep the audience at a distance and emotionally uninvolved, through the use of didactic songs narrative, cardboard characterization, projected titles, and other devices, Brecht's content is often so potent that we are sucked up willy-nilly--as in Mother Courage and Galileo. Similarly, Our Town, despite its lack of verisimilitude, rarely falls to sweep us up into the lives of its simple characters; and anyone who cant sit through its (somewhat too short) final act with dry eyes is nobody I should care to know...