Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks with Mondale, both Begin and Dayan expressed deep pessimism about the London meeting. Sadat was equally gloomy, but he nonetheless agreed to send Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamal in the hope that somehow his Jerusalem initiative might be revived. If the Israelis show interest in accepting the basic principle of Sadat's plan-custody of the West Bank to Jordan, Gaza to Egypt-then it will be viewed in Cairo as a sign of progress. In light of what the Egyptians feel is a hard line by Begin, Sadat has revised his timetable for peace. Says...
...pictures show a concentration camp on the Tvertsa River (a tributary of the Volga) near Torzhok, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. The 18th century Borisoglebsky Monastery, with its church and tower-once a tourist attraction-has been converted into a prison for convicts who are marched into town to do heavy construction work...
...Every show has two settings, the one onstage and one in the society that exists behind it. Pins and Needles, at Manhattan's Roundabout Theater, is almost 41 years old; the first line of its first number is "Sing me a song of social significance." But the difference between what was socially significant in 1937 and in 1978 is so ironically perceptible as to cripple some of the numbers while endowing others with brand-new satirical bite...
Harold Rome's music has an infectious amiability and moves the show along on dancing feet, though the level of choreography is primitive. Rome's lyrics achieve something that is perhaps rarer than wit, a good humor that arises from compassionate fellow feeling...
...Nukes is Good Nukes Road Show--politically hip street theater--the real thing. Free, of course, around lunchtime at Quincy Market and Government Center...