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Gaddafi's most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...
Sganarelle, a collection of four Moliere farces presented by the American Repertory Theatre, takes just the right tack. So many painful versions of Moliere have been produced that it comes as a pleasant surprise to see one carried off with style and enthusiasm. Not that a little bit of age doesn't cling to the faded storylines. But it's not the plots that matter nearly so much as the mood, the atmosphere. The ART company infuses the comedies with much of the same spontaneity and lively froth that Moliere's own crew must have brought to them in 17th...
Privately the ministers intimated that if there is no discernible economic improve ment by spring, Thatcher will have to change her tack or face several senior Cabinet resignations. That could well spell the end of her prime ministership...
Local 26 of the AFL-CIO, which represents the University's 550 dining hall workers, has vowed to take a strong adversarial tack in its dealings with Harvard under its new leadership. The primary issue in last spring's union elections, in fact, was whether the incumbent officials had acted complacently during contract negotiations during their tenure...
...white trunks, he jumped into the lake (a sight to gladden a former air controller's heart), and spent 3½ hours wading in mud, pulling weeds. That is the President's idea of a good time -that or his other recent projects of framing a tack room for the horses and mending a fence. Still, Reagan's concept of a vacation also includes quieter things like noticing deer, listening to frogs and staring at the brilliant, spangled nights. Why anyone would choose such activities over munching canapes in the Hamptons is a mystery to many journalists...