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...centers), or should we continue to aim for "assured destruction" of civilian and industrial targets? Ever since the Soviets began to approach strategic parity, it should have been obvious that a strategy aiming at civilian destruction was an irrational, suicidal, indeed nihilistic course that no President could implement. Undiscriminating slaughter is not a defense policy but a prelude to unilateral disarmament...
...considering the talents that went into the original, how could it be otherwise? Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were at the peak of their collaboration; George Abbott directed; and George Balanchine did the choreography, most notably the 20-minute jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Rodgers and Hart are gone, and Balanchine is ill. But Abbott, now 95, has returned to direct one of the liveliest revivals in years...
...considered flimsy. Junior Dolan, the son of two vaudeville dancers, leaves the act, goes to school, and eventually becomes a music professor. As the story gets under way, he tries to persuade a famous Russian ballet company to perform a modern dance by one of his students, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The inevitable complications ensue. The prima ballerina (Natalia Makarova) makes advances. Poor Frankie Frayne, Junior's true love, despairs. The ballet's impresario discovers the professor's terrible secret-that he lives to dance-and talks him into starring in the climactic number himself...
There are a few disappointments. Lara Teeter, who plays Junior Dolan, sings and dances well enough, but he does not have the personality to carry such a large and important part. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, the main number, looks oddly scratchy, and Balanchine's hand is clearly missing. Such faults, however, are far from catastrophic and, given the show's assets, weigh less than they otherwise might. On Your Toes is no longer a pioneer, but it offers something rarely encountered on Broadway these days: guaranteed enjoyment. -By Gerald Clarke
Israel's inquiry has, thankfully, ended. Yet countless more remain: -- Where is the Syrian inquiry into last year's slaughter of 10,000 of her own people in the fifth largest city. Hama? -- Where is the Jordanian investigation of the September 1970 Black September Massacre of 10,000 Palestinians? --Where is the Somalian account of the October 21 massacre of 500 in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia...