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...PLAY'S CONVOLUTED DECEPTIONS sometimes surpass the cast's abilities. Curt Dawson's Tindle cannot maintain the timing and exuberance necessary to keep the robbery interesting, nor does he ever realize the vengeful anger his part demands. An incongruous airiness in Dawson's voice and the stiffness of his movements force Allinson to provide all the game's vitality, but it is difficult for him to do it all alone. Similarly Philip Farrar's Detective Doppler is lugubrious and meticulous without being convincing...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: The Macabre Annals of Crime | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...enmity. And peace cannot surpass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poem | 8/22/1972 | See Source »

...Even though the brutality has been on a smaller scale during this year's Easter offensive, the Communists have murdered at least 200 people and imprisoned 6,000 in the Communist-controlled portion of Binh Dinh province. Allied intelligence officials believe that the number executed will surpass 500 before the whole of the province has been retaken by the South Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Campaign of Brutality | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...State Department official has argued that it is a sad state of affairs when one country allows so slight an incident as the defection of a diplomat to another country to surpass in importance forthcoming negotiations with that country over consequential issues. Perhaps the Chinese side (again) saw the Liao incident as an undeserved insult which indicated continued U.S. unwillingness to negotiate seriously--to them, the "current anti-China atmosphere" (in the U.S. government) made it "obviously most unsuitable" to hold talks. The Chinese implied that once this "atmosphere" has dissipated, they would be willing to negotiate; but they must...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Nixon and Mao: The Coming of the Thaw | 4/12/1972 | See Source »

Beat Japan. Soldier Wang continues to smile. Is he going to get into the market with his transistors and compete with Japan, someone asks. Wang straightens. "We are determined we will not only catch up with but surpass Japan because of the wise leadership of Chairman Mao and the system of socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Excursions in Mao's China | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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