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Most of the cast members from the earlier production have returned to take part in Bergman's unconventional methods for trying, as Company Member Tom Swift, 25, puts it, "to open the doors onto emotions." The director begins by asking the volunteers to act out scenes from childhood. One patient portrays a child playing with toy soldiers. He says he is blowing up his mother and father with a tank. A second man is told to imagine being discussed by his parents at a cocktail party; when an actress begins playing the role of his mother, he breaks down...
Though some at the Pentagon urged swift retaliation, White House officials were apparently concerned that a U.S. military counterstrike would trigger new congressional demands that the Administration invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which would require Reagan to notify Congress that U.S. military forces were in a hostile situation, then withdraw the troops after 60 days unless the House and Senate approved their remaining. Senate critics of Reagan's gulf policy promised they would redouble their efforts to force the Administration to invoke the act if the Sea Isle City attack was avenged...
...officials had no qualms about the swift use of force in the incident. "These guys were performing a hostile act -- putting mines in the water," said Crowe. "Warnings don't make sense at that point. You want to stop them...
...home echoed with the sounds of people making up funny stories and listening to others on the radio. Bill's mother Anna would tuck him and his three brothers into their pajamas, the kind with booties sewn in and flaps in the back, and read aloud from Twain and Swift, the brothers Grimm and the Bible...
Jablonski bolsters the romantic tale of the young composer brilliantly burning out before his time. But in this case the story is true, and the question of what Gershwin might have accomplished remains. As Kay Swift conjectures, "We'll never know, will we? But it would have been important...