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...changed more dramatically than the afternoon Gazette (100,000). In the last four years, the Republic has boosted its reporting staff from 65 to 100, stationed one reporter in Viet Nam while others roam, the globe. Arizona staffers have delved into such topics as poverty, the new math, smog, pornography, and corruption in the state tax commission. The paper fought successfully to save nearby scenic Camelback Mountain from private developers...
...these themes might have stung the play into fitful life if it were not smothered in rhetoric. Danton inhales moral smog and exhales bombast. Herbert Blau is credited with translating the German; he has assuredly embalmed the English. Thanks to Blau, Robespierre has been given an outward resemblance to Barry Goldwater. This is a political subtlety fully worthy of the mentality that-in a since-deleted program note-linked Lyndon B. Johnson and Mao Tse-tung as fellow tyrants. Thanks to Blau, too, the direction resembles a wind machine blowing actors around like autumn leaves...
...hill overlooking Hollywood, a musty, turreted old Gothic house broods amid mist and smog. The traveler who reaches the lonely relic stands damply in a small reception hall presided over by a surly owl with satanically gleaming eyes. But there is no apparent way for the new arrival to get out of the room. Then the receptionist makes a quiet suggestion: a few words, perhaps "Open sesame!", to the owl? The visitor speaks, and, lo, the innocent-looking bookcase near the bird swings open, revealing a crowded bar. The visitor is in The Magic Castle, the U.S.'s only...
...with them; I shall never return." Few readers will miss her. In her fifth novel, Elizabeth Spencer (The Light in the Piazza) demonstrates a delicate attention to the shifting, uncertain boundaries between illusion and reality. But her characters are merely attitudes or intuitions, and her sensibility a romantic smog that muffles all the harsh realities the author and her heroine cannot bear to face...
...stiffened his spine with resolutions declaring that 1) students must observe "proper standards of conduct in good taste," and 2) university chancellors of all campuses are expected to discipline those who misbehave. "A lot of air has been cleared," said Kerr. But the forecast was for still more smog...