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Almost every moment in the script rings false. Why do the lovers scrupulously avoid each other 363 days a year? For no reason other than to preserve the writer's one-set gimmick. Why do the adulterers profess so much affection for each other's spouse and kids? So that old-fashioned audiences won't be too threatened by the couple's yearly transgressions. Slade is a classic practitioner of the have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too school of Broadway dramaturgy. He seems to be saying that a carefully circumscribed adultery will actually improve...
...factories and back streets that are visited without advance notice, the people are as warmly receptive as any on the scheduled tour. Only in these places, in small takes, can the visitor fight free of Instamatic Blur. He/she will not begin to understand China; even the Chinese do not profess to understand China. However, by osmosis and ingestion one can return home with vivid brush strokes on the mind...
...Soviets profess to be confused by Carter's policies, which Moscow's weekly New Times complained are "changeable as the weather." But they are also openly angry. The Pravda commentary, which is viewed by Western experts as the official Kremlin response to Carter's Annapolis address, denounced the President for presenting the most "preconceived and distorted" analysis of Soviet "realities" since the days of the cold war. The shrill rebuttal by the Communist Party daily also charged that Carter was "whipping up the arms race" and "exaggerating in every way the elements of rivalry and belittling...
...Viet Nam by ex-Analyst Frank Snepp-who happens to be a friend of Stockwell's-In Search was published without CIA permission. It thus becomes the latest entry in what may become a full-blown literary genre: spy-and-tell books by disaffected former intelligence operatives who profess to be turning to their typewriters much more for principle than for profit...
These two ex-clergymen profess affection for the church. Not so Dotson Rader, a preacher's kid who says he wrote his hate-filled book about American Evangelicals because they are so filled with hatred. Rader's grandfather Luke and great-uncle Paul were big-time revival preachers. His father, also named Paul, who still conducts meetings around the South, raised Dotson on the road and wanted his son to become a preacher too. It was the novelist's great-uncle who had the distinction of preaching at the very meeting in Los Angeles where the adolescent...