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...ever a subject demanded this treatment, though, Arthur Kopit '59 has hit upon it. In this play, his most autobiographical to date, Kopit confronts the unthinkable, the day of doom threatened by nuclear weaponry. The result is a surprisingly even-handed scenario despite the potentially heavy-handed enterprise. With the kinetic staging of avant-garde director Richard Foreman, the A.R.T. production is powerful and provoking...
Kopit's play about the unwinnable war, the unthinkable fate, is not quite an unmissable event. Occasionally, what lacks subtlety becomes overbearing, as with Ken Howard's performance. More frequently, though, the production is an eloquent, moving one. Hardly a worstcase scenario...
...those comparisons with Watergate needlessly complicate an understanding of Ronald Reagan's problems. Those who make the comparison usually disavow too specific a parallel (the new scandal involves zealots, not scoundrels, etc.). Yet to invoke Watergate implies the playing out of an old scenario (looking for the smoking gun), which leads to only one result, whereas Reagan's destiny can still take a number of turns. Finally, Watergate revives that memory of a period when the press got hopelessly muddled over whether its role was to be observer or participant. It is not anxious to revive that issue...
...States. In the inevitable struggle of internal political forces to succeed Khomeini, the potential of Soviet intervention cannot be completely ruled out. The 1921 treaty with Iran could be invoked to justify such an intervention on the grounds that chaos in Iran endangers Soviet security. If the 1979 Afghanistan scenario unfolds in Iran, the U.S. will be compelled to act in order to "cut its losses." It may be done through a tacit partition of Iran so that the Soviets could not reach the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean...
THIS MAY NOT SEEM so morally heinous, but in fact it is complex form of robbery. But even more important are its effects. Scenario: everybody breaks the rules of Wall Street...chaos ensues...capital is unavailable to allow companies to grow and function, leading to...Economic Breakdown! Well, this may be extreme, but if we decide to let one person get away with breaking the rules, what deterrent is there to stop others...