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...Thang Long bridge across the Red River is a strand of spanless girders; a much publicized Soviet highway from Savannakhet, in Laos, to Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...
Crimes of the Heart. Three sisters, nurtured in Southern gothic grotesquerie, induce spasms of laughter in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...
...government's withdrawal from the Sinai next April, when this northern strip of the desert is scheduled to revert to Egypt under the terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful setting, Yamit's residents have skillfully managed to turn their town into a blooming oasis of lush...
...allowing his paunch some room to move, brushed his hair back and wiped the sweat off his forehead; Jim, the boss, whistled "Lonely is a man without love" for maybe the twentieth time since the morning, picked up a butcher's knife and snapped the links holding a strand of sausage together...
...pastorale. Along with Wriston, Gilmer, Bill Hinson and sometimes a black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines in peril...