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...present purposes, admirable: the Boyle flat is both austere and serviceable; ugly, but not off-putting. And the lighting, eminently professional, as is all lighting by Jonathan F. Warburg, complements, and compliments, it. Why, then--and I trust you will forgive this spate of rhetorical questions--is this Juno for all its sparks of incandescence, such a flickering candle? I can think of some three reasons, at the moment. 1.) The pacing, particularly in the first two acts, is entirely too slow--almost lackadaisical. 2.) There is little attempt to force the Boyles and their friends to relate...
...Leader Joshua Nkomo and seven other former leaders of the banned Zimbabwe African People's Union for taking part in an "illegal procession" and "obstructing police" at a protest rally, charges that could mean up to ten years in prison. With that. Field last week sent Parliament a spate of proposals that would give police broad new search and arrest powers, permit the whipping of prisoners (up to a maximum of ten lashes), and make hanging mandatory for anyone convicted of arson or the use of explosives...
Donovan undeniably believed what he said. But he was about the last one who did. For by now a spate of stories was appearing, detailing Bobby's efforts...
...Guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), directed by ex-Husband Roger Vadim, was lavishly lauded as her best bedtime story to date. To celebrate, she and her constant consort, Actor Sami Frey, 27, buzzed off to a Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation in the Parisian press that Brigitte might, for Sami, convert to Judaism. ∙ ∙ ∙ As Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 52, told it to a select little clique gathered to watch the Bolshoi Ballet troupe at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan, his wife, Irina, is an in curable...
Even though West German generosity is below par by U.S. standards, Washington hopes that Bonn's aid program will not founder in the spate of criticism. But the Germans have much to learn. As one Bonn foreign aid official puts it: "Because we lost our colonies early, we come to Africa and Asia with 'clean hands.' But that also has disadvantages. We don't know them or understand them...