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Then that kids' show came along and sent me reeling. If you, O section comrades, were up early enough to catch the show--a wood puppet family with a son, Davey, and his faithful canine companion, Goliath--you'd understand the simple brilliance of it. The adventures! The familial love! The clear morality! The churches! The utter pureness of Davey's heart...
...prevent or stop massacres, the U.S. might be forced into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...
...military men gambled on nostalgia. By bringing Boudiaf aboard, they hoped to create an aura of historical legitimacy. But Boudiaf, 72, is hardly a household name now. He has been absent from Algeria for the past 28 years, since he fled to Morocco after refusing to serve as the puppet President of an army-controlled government. With nearly 75% of Algeria's 26 million people under age 30, it is questionable whether young voters will grasp the symbolism...
Museums and other institutions have begun to adopt the celebrations. Last year more than 8,500 people attended poetry readings, music performances and puppet shows during the sixth annual observance at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian added a program of Kwanzaa activities to its Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations...
...Firebird--a giant shadow puppet spectacle based on Stravinsky's ballet suite, presented by the Underground Railway Theater. In the Arlington Center for the Arts in the former Gibbs Junior High School at 41 Foster St., Arlington, one block off Mass. Ave. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 12 and 13, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1 and 3 p.m. Tickets are $6, and are available by calling...