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...TORN DOWN AND REPLACED BY A NEW 44-STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS! and LET'S GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N. "That's funny," observes a lady as he goads his reindeer skyward. "For some reason, I always thought of him as a liberal...
...were much-heralded new arrivals on the political , scientific or cultural scene--stellar entrants that never quite made it. Each was a "news event" Time magazine might have chirped about in a short blurb one week, and then promptly forgotten. They were all firecrackers that roared skyward and then fizzled...
...REMAINING three pieces do not use such obvious theatrical devices. In "Cervidae," choreographed by Luise Wykell, Jim and Lorry crawl, never standing upright, at times like insects with spindly legs extending skyward, at times like bears rubbing noses. "Peer," choreographed by Patrice Regnier, deals with emotions that one friend called "primitive," another "childlike." Again, the animal tinges the human character. And finally, "Duet," from Anna Sokolow's "Lyric Suite," omitting the shading of animal character, presents the passions of young lovers...
...Compleat Birdman wittily analyzes the unearthly urge that inspired biblical figures, Leonardo da Vinci and just about everyone else who ever wanted to trade the land for the wind. Here is Simon Magus, an early Roman necromancer who rose skyward (possibly by means of a balloon) before a crowd that included St. Peter. To the relief of the early Christian spectators, Magus suffered an instant-and fatal-crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings...
Marcos has eased the conditions for foreign investment in the Philippines, and the country is attracting an impressive series of development loans from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Eight new first-class hotels are pushing skyward all over Manila in preparation for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund in September. The benefits of all the economic gilding, however, have not yet trickled down to the Philippine grass roots...