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...Seldom since the blusterous days of Nikita Khrushchev had there been such an epithetic attack on China by a Soviet leader. Launching the Soviet Union's 50th anniversary celebrations in Moscow last week, normally restrained Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev lashed out at Peking for "malicious slander of the Soviet political system and foreign policy," for "absurd claims to Soviet territory," for "sabotage of efforts for disarmament," for "continuous attempts to split the socialist camp," for trying to "foment discord" among "national liberation" movements, and for attempts "to range the developing countries against the Soviet Union...
...that the FTC has sought to break up an alleged monopoly-normally a job left to the Justice Department. Further, the commission did not base its case on either of the two standard antimonopoly statutes-the Sherman and the Clayton antitrust laws. It leaned instead on a broad and seldom used section in the basic FTC act outlawing "unfair methods of competition in commerce...
...fair and foul a night London playgoers have seldom seen. Dark, suffocating, nameless terror creeps everywhere. Sounds of shrieking horses and gales of bone-rattling electronic music zap the eardrums. It is the National Theater's production of Macbeth, raising new shudders in the definition of gore, new questions about the existence of the supernatural-and new developments in the black art of scaring up tickets. As Macbeth, Anthony Hopkins is a restless animal, hopelessly possessed, feeding on eerie fears until they devour him. But soft, who is that lady he was seen with? That lady whose steely resolve...
...football climate in Miami was not always so sunny. A 1966 expansion team in the old American Football League, the early Dolphins won only 15 out of 56 games in their first four seasons and seldom drew more than 30,000 fans to home games. In 1970, tired of losing both money and football games, the Dolphins' principal owner, a fast-talking attorney named Joe Robbie tried to lure Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant from the University of Alabama. Bear declined, so Robbie then turned to Shula, who had twice been named N.F.L. Coach of the Year during seven successful...
...Happy Days and up to the neck in Act II, life is a slow, garrulous leak into the sands of death. The trivia of her handbag and stray threads of memory sustain her, together with a fossil of a husband who is scarcely seen and seldom heard. In Krapp's Last Tape, the dialogue is incestuous. A 69-year-old man (Hume Cronyn) communes with his recorded self of earlier birthdays and indulges a ravenous appetite for bananas. Krapp is another of Beckett's incorrigible gas bags, an amusing aspect of a playwright who has been so widely...