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...chairs designed by a Bauhaus sadist?costs the playgoer 230 a minute. A full day with the Nicklebys costs about 200 a minute. And for each pair of dimes you get another generous, nourishing slice of instant cultural history. Most Broadway shows offer a pleasant enough diversion between sunset and bed; Nickleby will become part of your organism, cast a glow for years to come. So sell the Atari, skip a mortgage payment, pawn the children...
Stretching toward sunset from the Missouri, South Dakota's West River country is an unrelieved expanse of rough-hewn plains and arid badlands. Under the tough sod lie prairie-dog towns and nuclear missile silos. Above ground, a handful of ranchers raise sheep and cattle on the stingy rangeland. Mostly, natives say, there are miles and miles of miles and miles...
...does him in is Ralph Richardson, wearing his best pair of sly boots. He plays a fussy old sorcerer, frail but doughty, and a trifle wistful because he never mastered the trick of turning lead into gold, which would have provided him with a more comfortable castle for his sunset years. He has a certain fellow feeling for the ogre, who is also an old crock who has outlived his time. Richardson's best speech is an evocation of the days when the skies were aflap with dragons and all the earth seemed touched by magic...
...Then, at sunset, the next day's observance began, this one in joy rather than sorrow. The day of mourning was followed by the festive Independence Day, this year marking the 33rd year of Israel's existence as a state. Jerusalem's King George Street was closed to traffic as young people linked arms to dance the hora and began the celebration. Some of the merriment lasted through the night with springtime abandon...
...charge will have strict instructions, of course; threats and thunderations even; but who's to stop him-how could he stop himself-from revving up those monstrous old engines, easing back on the controls, and lifting the Goose off the water for one last flight into the sunset...