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...eyes. The Island is the less popular play (it only plays twice a week against six showings of Sizwe). It has less of a story line, and it's more cerebral. The introduction of the arguments of Antigone early in the play is done with an abruptness and step-by-step repetition (for the benefit of slow Winston) that is really reminiscent of the didacticism of guerrilla theatre...
...Slow Steps. Last year Panama and the U.S. signed an eight-point agreement in principle on how to proceed with the negotiations. Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, Panama's dictatorial but populist strongman, hopes for a "step-by-step and orderly process of demilitarization and neutralization of the canal." But the steps have been slow, and the two sides are still well apart...
TIMING. Israel had insisted on a longterm, step-by-step agreement, ideally eight years, minimally three. Sadat held out for short-term extensions...
...would require congressional approval-and that, at the present time, Kissinger cannot guarantee. He is still far from popular with Congress, even though he can properly claim much of the credit for getting the disengagement talks back on the track after the shuttle talks broke down. He sensed that step-by-step talks were still the best route to disengagement. Rabin admitted last week: "Sadat and I both consider that the U.S. is the only power that can build the necessary bridgeheads." Thus the Secretary of State carefully orchestrated new discussions, leading up to Salzburg and Rabin...
...headed. A pro-football player turned private investigator in L.A., he's a failure to his wife, who when she can't reach him cheats on him, almost in frustration. He disrespects himself for hiring himself out on divorce cases, but he can't help it--the step-by-step of the process fascinates him, as though by compartmentalizing experience and solving things he's getting at the root of his own life...