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...frenzy of banquets and rallies, then, is not to be considered hustings. "You get a certain serenity out of this," he says of his fractious Senate role. "You can't change the world all by yourself, but there is a serenity in trying." Aide Tom Ellis may have a straighter bead on any vice-presidential bid: "If Jesse thought it was in the best interests of his country, I think we could get the old bird into...
...analysis--but A.W.O.L. is a strange hybrid. It relies heavily on puns and innuendo for its humor, and yet it's not nearly as raunchy and satisfying as the annual transvestite theatrical. At the same time, Sellon doesn't seem to have faith that the audience will accept a straighter musical. He constantly falls back on the device of a show-within-a-show (four times in all), as if apologizing for the production numbers. Songs are introduced with meticulous care, something which simply adds ballast to the show and causes such side-effects as a first act which runs...
Fuentes sits up even straighter and looks very stern. "I have not said that the revolution has been betrayed. This has become a cliche in the interpretation of my work. I blieve the social and economic processes inserted into history are not wound and pure and change. What does not change, however, is our ideology...
...three times more men died in the conflict than women, there currently exists nearly an entire generation of elderly women who never married and whose presence is felt throughout Soviet society. The ever-present babushka is always telling complete strangers to wear a scarf or hat, to stand up straighter, or not to shuffle your feet when you walk...
...101st checks out its 18 tanks. They are "Iron Coffins," old M48 Pattons, recently modernized with 105-mm turret guns and twelve-cylinder diesels. Crashing through trees and brush, the 54-tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox...