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...result of the defeated uprisings has left a scar on the national psyche, a kind of ambivalence and fear that endure to this day. "On the one hand," says Social Historian Wiktor Osiatynski, "the Pole applauds the drive for democratic freedoms. On the other hand, not far below the surface roils the thought that previous such efforts for national salvation have ended in catastrophe...
...Lyndon Johnson lifting his shirt to show the scar from his gallstone operation...
Laughter is no laughing matter in this play. In between one-liners and running gags, the characters on the stage of Broadway's Lyceum Theater shout and scream at one another. Their confrontations contain a sly malice, suppressed rage and maddening frustration. As comedy, Grownups is scar-tissue deep...
...Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental breakdown. The scar tissue shows in hard-boiled mannerisms and a terror of displaying "weakness...
Fears are growing, however, that the rebellion could end in a violent confrontation between the settlers and Israeli troops. "The withdrawal should be as ugly as possible," says Menachem Digli, a former Israeli intelligence colonel who runs a resort south of Yamit. "It should leave a deep scar in the Israeli national memory." His reasoning: a fight would prevent future governments from making similar agreements about giving up the Golan Heights or the West Bank...