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...emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable civilians mobilize into an armada of ineptitude. Finally Gig commandeers a blimp, has himself lowered on a life raft, grabs the flyaway as he floats...
...action is set on a desert containing a tree, a rubber raft, some seashells, two men and a woman. The men and the woman have a number of problems, the main one being that the sea has disappeared. They know that there must be a sea--the presence of the shells can be explained in no other way--and they have built their lives around the expectation of the sea's return...
What happens at the end is not worth dwelling on. Briefly, the sea, the desert, the raft, etc., suddenly and inexplicably become big, clumsy symbols. At that point the play instantly loses all its life and laboriously struggles to its pretentious finish...
Died. General Bernard Cyril ("Tiny") Freyberg, 74, New Zealand's hero of two world wars, proud possessor of nine battle wounds and many more decorations (including the Victoria Cross), a bluff, towering New Zealander who swam the Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home...
...they block out burning ultraviolet rays from the sun, and they allow true tanning only to the extent that they let those same ultraviolet rays through. Perhaps the most effective sun-screening agent of all is a dark red veterinary petroleum jelly, used during World War II for life-raft survival. Trouble is, the stuff is indeed red (although it loses its color when rubbed on); it is also greasy and smells like...