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...There's a hum on this street," says Sandy Dennis, looking down a line of lighted marquees in the heart of Broadway, "a feeling of encouragement that hasn't been around for a long, long time." Dennis is starring in Absurd Person Singular, her first Broadway hit in ten years. Her success, along with the return of several other top actors, marks an unexpected renaissance of Broadway. After years of frustration over a Great White Way beset by urban squalor, rocketing costs and deserting audiences, Broadway is enjoying the kind of lively season that seemed to have disappeared...
...firepower build on the walls surrounding D-yard, the outcome-even in hindsight-looms with the inevitability of Greek tragedy. The impact of Wicker's book shatters the convenient forgetfulness that cocoons disturbing memories. Even his thin, novelizing technique, which includes writing about himself in the third person singular and larding the narrative with bits of autobiography, does not lessen the book's overall effect. Whether Wicker was being a participatory journalist or a journalist participant matters little in the face of the events and issues that he at once confronts and manages to get down...
These were the first faint whiffs of something that could be very new and very good for the presidency and for America. For 22 years the office of the vice presidency has been cast in the images of two singular men-Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. For eight years Nixon was the Vice President. He was not fully trusted by Eisenhower and there was certainly little real affection between them. Even as Vice President, Nixon was a remote and imperial figure, establishing elaborate protocol safeguards as he moved around Congress and the White House...
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR. A singularly jovial farce. Three suburban British couples party together on three successive Christmas Eves, and the audience gets blind drunk on laughter...
...delve into every aspect of domestic policy; he will arbitrate among conflicting Cabinet proposals and formulate plans for allocation of the nation's natural and financial resources. To give so much clout to a man with presidential ambitions of his own would seem to be an act of singular self-effacement on the part of Ford. But as an aide puts it, "The President has no ego problem...