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...LATTER part of the play, however, Canetti abandons the random vignettes to scrutinize Fifty's plight, bringing the drama into sharper focus. Fifty's rebellion provides the play with some much-needed action, but more important, it provides several of the minor characters a chance to do more than merely narrate. Whereas Fifty's friend spends the first half of the play telling us how his sister died, in the second half he is able to express how he felt about...
...less tortuous. Ridings insisted that the slate be chosen largely from an original list of twelve, and to complete the process, she presented each campaign with pairs of potential panelists who had to be accepted in tandem. That approach produced a balanced group whose questions seemed a bit sharper in tone and follow-up than those posed by the presidential inquisitors. Its members: Robert Boyd, Washington bureau chief of the Knight-Ridder newspapers, Norma Quarles of NBC News, John Mashek of U.S. News and World Report and Jack White of TIME...
...candidate has put away the charts of Reagan deficits that showed up badly on TV and adopted a sharper speaking style. He often denounces Reagan for "official cruelty" in cutting Government social programs. In his U.S.C. speech, he recalled that Reagan had opposed the 1963 test-ban treaty, and declared: "If Mr. Reagan had had his way, our children would be drinking milk with strontium 90." This line has its dangers: it sometimes sounds slightly whiny, and it veers perilously close to the kind of ad hominem attack on a highly popular President that could backfire. Mondale has also flubbed...
...Only Problem is filled with questions as sharply recorded as this. The answers are often sharper...
...factor behind Caterpillar's troubles in foreign markets has been the overly strong dollar, because it makes the company's products more costly to foreign buyers. Since 1981, sales to Africa and the Middle East have fallen from $1.9 billion to $680 million. The decline is even sharper in Latin America, where they have dropped from $903 million to $266 million. Even though some trade with the Soviet Union is once again permitted, business is virtually nonexistent because the Soviets now view Caterpillar as an erratic supplier...