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...riposted that those who suffered discrmination "certainly knew we had a race problem." Carter made one verbal slip: he thanked the residents of Ohio for being hospitable "during these last few hours in my life," causing some jocular aides to wonder if he was about to fall on his sword. Independent Candidate John Anderson was not invited to the debate but voiced his views on a malfunctioning hookup of Cable News Network, joking that he felt "inadequate to compete with little Amy or a witch doctor...
While academics argue whether 1980 will initiate a lasting political realignment, Congress will begin reorganizing in a special added session next week. In the Senate, veteran Republicans take over in January as committee chairmen, and will ready their charges for Reagan's tax-cutting and sword rattling...
Khomeini's bellicosity is fully shared by other clerical leaders, who see the war as a unique chance to export their Islamic revolution by the sword. The mullahs have recruited their own irregular forces at hundreds of local mosques, and many of the clerics have taken military instruction themselves. Iran's "patriotic war" has also been joined by hundreds of seasoned leftist guerrillas, who brave clerical harassment in order to fight the common Iraqi enemy...
...lies in its songs and dances. Lerner and Loewe struck a rich melodic vein, and this full-throated cast mines every golden nugget. Agnes de Mille's dances summon up atavistic ceremonies that might have been carved in bas-relief on the walls of ancient temples. Two standouts: Sword Dance, done with steely balletic precision by John Curry of ice-skating fame, and the Funeral Dance, performed with melancholy fury by Marina Eglevsky to a dirge of bagpipes. The guiding intelligence behind every moment of every scene belongs to Vivian Matalon, who makes of the director's craft...
...which wrecks the intentions of director Murphy. For he would have us believe that Macbeth is more a victim than a murderer. The danger lurks not in the man but rather in the cold, gleaming sword and the emotions it stirs when placed in the man's hand. It's like letting grown men play with nuclear missiles, only in that case they don't have to worry about ghosts coming back to bother them...