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That territory was, of course, sex. Except for Hair (1967), which caused gasps with its blink-of-the-eye moment of frontal nudity, naked bodies--really naked bodies--had never before been seen on a respectable stage. Oh! Calcutta! thus made history of a kind when after a striptease with bathrobes, the entire cast threw off the veil of terry cloth and lined up across the stage, protected by nothing but smiles and goose pimples. "It was a staggeringly inventive piece of theater at the time," says one of its twelve writers, Director Robert Benton (Places in the Heart...
...placate all sides of the Administration's fractious arms-negotiating team. In a significant victory for Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan decided to scrap two American submarines to continue--for now--compliance with the unratified SALT II treaty. Yet to please Pentagon hard-liners, he set the stage for "proportionate responses" to alleged Soviet violations. Work will be accelerated on the small single-warhead mobile missile known as the Midgetman and on an advanced radar-evading cruise missile. He proposed a study of yet another new mobile missile, dubbed Mobileman, which would be about the size...
...otherwise shown interest in this good old American mixture of corporate marketing, show-biz glitz and genuine grass-roots spirit. Although that is still a good distance from the final goal, Ken Kragen, the project's Pied Piper, says some $16 million has been raised or pledged to stage the event, and that interest will soon reach a critical mass...
...incident marked the latest stage in a war touched off last month by the Sydney Morning Herald, which accused Indonesian President Suharto's family and business associates of "waxing fat on government capital, credit and concessions and accumulating $2 billion to $3 billion." The Jakarta government retaliated by threatening to reject Australian military-aid programs. By midweek, however, Indonesia eased its stance and waived the visa requirement for Australian tourists, who bring the archipelago millions of dollars in annual revenue...
...defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming to the U.S. in 1936, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood, where his first triumph was the masterly thriller Laura (1944). He also acted on stage and in films, often as a menacing Nazi, a role many of those who had wilted under the "Otto-crat's" frequent tongue lashings regarded as entirely appropriate...