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Christopher Hampton's adaptation transcribes rather than transcends Ibsen's antique dramaturgy, while Patrick Garland's direction is curiously uninflected, so the whole enterprise gives off the air of a respectful college theatrical. As Nora Helmer, Claire Bloom seems to substitute aspiration for inspiration-a windup doll...
STUDENTS are unimpressed with either Hall's security mechanisms or his student police force. They realize that the student watchmen are no substitute for trained patrolmen, and that in a time of real emergency the baby police force will be not only useless but inhibiting.
Pro football becomes a substitute American religion on many a fall Sunday, but most of the teams now have their own weekly prayer meetings. This spring, while teammates are spending the off-season selling insurance or filming lucrative deodorant commercials, dozens of pro football players are on road trips for...
Meanwhile, Vesco goes on establishing himself in Costa Rica. Crateloads of furniture have arrived in San José from I.O.S. offices in France. Vesco has been granted a provisional Costa Rican passport and, according to Figueres, he intends to renounce U.S. citizenship. He has rented a chalet in a wooded...
Haig never aspired to be an innovator in diplomatic affairs, but shone as the organizer and expediter, with a loudly expressed detestation of "gimmickry." As a substitute for Kissinger in briefing the President, Haig came to know Nixon well. During the last dry run for Nixon's journey to...