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...grotesque too quickly to think much about credibility. The narrative is powerfully direct, painfully simple, and only rarely heavy-handed. With steely-eyed, unflinching confidence Rawls sets it out with little moralizing and less existentialism--and it burns. There is a macabre concentration on the horror, the strange, spell-binding discovery of some of the inhumane dark places of our humanity. Cold Storage is a grim, intensely-created thing, focusing with iron nerves on subjects we don't want to know about...
...rest of the cast fares less well, unable to break free of Sellars's spell, like automatons in a technocracy. Grace Shohet is properly bitchy as Goneril and Anne Clarke makes a vapidly cruel Regan but they remain one-dimensional. James Bundy plays Kent with remarkable sincerity but his brawl with Oswald (a surprisingly meaty role in the hands of David Prum) sinks to absurdity. Mathew Horsman and Judah Mandlebaum labor with Albany and Cornwall and Max Cantor skates onstage intermittently as the court's errand...
Defense may spell worries for the Crimson tonight. Junior Bobby Fowkes, who also missed the weekend games with Yale and Colgate, has been declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season...
...have not called for and do not anticipate calling for a draft," said Jimmy Carter. "We are advocating [only] registration for a draft." But a law passed by Congress in November required the President last week to spell out the kind of draft he would ask the legislators to approve if one ever did become necessary...
...past energy-overcharge settlements, the Government did not publicly spell out the exact allegations against Amoco. It is believed that the DOE audit of the company's books revealed at least $100 million in excess selling prices. The remainder of the $690 million settlement resulted from both alleged overcharging and forbidden bookkeeping practices that enabled the company to run up costs faster than permitted...