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...questions asked in some cases are a brief recap of those on a job application form. In others, they probe the subject's past, with the emphasis on theft. But sometimes they pry into more personal affairs. Testers reportedly used to ask job applicants at the Coors brewery about their sexual proclivities and how often they changed their underwear. According to Mike Tiner of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, queries about political, sexual and union matters are "definitely on the increase...
...Demetrius and Lisa Sloan's Helena wander about in a ghostly love-dance, with Helena reaching for and grasping Demetrius just as he turns away; after the night of illusion in the forest is over, and the lovers are rubbing the sleep and dreams from their eyes, they recap the confusions of their double-love-triangle in a whirlwind mime before running back to the city...
...initial press run of 416,000 copies was quickly claimed a sellout, but some London journalists, while wishing it well, were saying Now! should more accurately be called Then! Aside from a scoop about Iraqi spying, the only effort at hard news was a watery recap of the Rhodesian peace talks. Judged the Financial Times: "Newsmagazine is precisely what the first issue is not. It is a feature magazine, and not an especially good one at that." Said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans: "There is less of a feeling of a window on the world than TIME or ... various British...
...playlets are quite dreary. In the weakest, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby appear as vacationing Chicago doctors whose Los Angeles visit is ruined by slapstick mishaps involving torn clothing and wayward automobiles. It is a thin recap of an old Simon screenplay, The Out-of-Towners. Jane Fonda and Alan Alda fare only slightly better in their sketch. She plays a tart-tongued Newsweek editor who has flown West to fight with her ex-husband over the custody of their daughter...
THERE are bright spots enough to keep one awake--barely, there is no doubt that the cast deserves an A for effort. But while the play tries to capture the essence of some of the greatest moral and political dilemmas of the century and simultaneously recap some of Brazil's recent history, the audience is expected to sit still for a good two hours or more...