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...Rabb and Keyser shine throughout, giving us a George and Martha we can believe have been tormenting each other for 23 years. Keyser's George is properly sardonic and resigned, while Rabb's Martha transcends nastiness. When Rabb admits in the final lines that she is afraid of Virginia Woolf, we see a nasty and bitter woman afraid of the impending madness that led Woolf to suicide. Richardson plays a sturdy and naive Nick, while Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place...
What occurred was a remarkable tale of triumphs and bungles, of Brooklyn consiglieri and Milan Mafiosi, of chases along New York City's Fifth Avenue and gun-toting criminals tailing intelligence agents along Italian autostrade. So secret was the operation that not even U.S. Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb was aware of it until TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, accompanied by Rome Correspondent Barry Kalb, questioned the diplomat two weeks ago. Beaty's report...
When presented with evidence of Mafia involvement, Rabb offered to check with the embassy's CIA station chief. The ambassador returned 40 minutes later, looking embarrassed. He confirmed that SISMI had indeed made a deal with Lombino and that, after the U.S. had offered Lombino protection and a guarantee that he could return to the U.S., the Mafia lawyer had gone to Italy and met with "M." Rabb insisted that nothing had come of Lombino's aid. "It was a big fizz," the ambassador said. The FBI and the Justice Department refuse to confirm or deny the story...
...never be known just how valuable the Mafia's help was in finding Dozier. Rabb's explanation, which minimizes the Mafia's role, may be accurate. The Italian police did indeed make a series of key arrests just before the raid, and law-enforcement officials in Rome insist that these suspects helped lead them to Dozier...
Abraham Zaleznik, currently Cahners Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management, was named the first Konosuka Matsushita Professor of Leadership. The chair's namesake is chairman of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd. of Japan, an international concern which sells electronic equipment under the Panasonic, Technical and Quasar brands in the United States...