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...much wine, and nuns are the Gestapo in wimples. Among those destined to burn in hell are Roman Polanski, Big John Holmes, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. On Broadway and off, these glosses on Catholic dogma are raising smiles, nostalgic shudders and the occasional hackle, as young playwrights sculpt wicked ironies from the gothic fantasies of their parochial school youth. Last week two new "Catholic plays" joined the pair already on the New York boards. No doubt about it: nuns' stories are paving the Great White...
...cover had been given new noses and restorative face-lifts by a young Thai artist known simply as Yas. Or that Yas, in his busy, unnamed shop on a small side street in Bangkok, does much more than restore antiquities. With astonishing ease and almost frightening frequency, Yas can sculpt his own "ancient" Khmer art, so convincing in style and apparent age that his works have passed expert scrutiny as genuine treasures of Angkor's golden epoch...
...favorite DH word) change the circumstances around them. He seeks these men out and writes, I suppose, the way they think--in long, powerful and uncontrolled sentences, in roman numerals. Let the historians worry about the economic and social forces that shaped the world. Halberstam wants the men who sculpt that world to their liking. Maybe those men don't change the world, but Halberstam thinks they do and his work--in its inevitable bulk--challenges anyone to think otherwise...
Comes the time when a canny President clings to principle at the center but on the edges begins to sculpt new ideas and responses. Those are already churning in the back corridors of the White House. There is the proposal that Reagan rally the nation this fall behind a banner of sacrifice. There is the discovery that out of 17,000 air controllers on the payroll, 3,000 were not needed and 3,000 more were doing clerical work for which special training is unnecessary. Reagan is likely to launch a vast effort to cut civil and military personnel...
...Leningrad to an obscure island named Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown that childless or one-child families, superficially suitable to working parents in the urban centers of European Russia, are not in the greater interest of society if we starve the future...