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...there is a problem with Outerbridge Reach, it is not that some of its conclusions appear improbable but that its structure seems a tad too deterministic. Stone, at his highest pitch, is a poet of doom; his characters must confront nothing less than the implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...
HELMUT KOHL has a bone to pick with BORIS YELTSIN. As the largest contributor of economic aid so far to the troubled republics, Germany is just a tad ticked off by U.S. intelligence reports that the old Soviet Union continues to briskly manufacture nuclear weapons. Among them are SS-18s, SS- 25s and SS-24s traditionally aimed at Western Europe. How come? Maybe no one remembered to tell the factories to stop. Whatever the explanation, Chancellor Kohl intends to do something about it. While he will continue providing emergency rations to the republics this winter, Germany may halt financing...
...outcome is not always so positive. Although State Department insiders tell how spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler dragged Baker in to watch CNN footage of China's crackdown against protesters in Tiananmen Square, the only measurable political effect was to distance Baker a tad from the Chinese leadership. Says a senior official, discussing the bloodshed's being seen by the American people on CNN: "It demanded a solution we couldn't provide. We were powerless to make it stop...
...Chad Leith had an amusing, Hasty Pudding kind of dynamic on stage. Although bits such as "The Home Shopping Period Network," "Hamlet-Cop" and an extended, musical version of "Knock Knock/ Who's There?/ Boo/ Boo Who?/ Hey there--dry your eyes!" were hilarious, perhaps the skits ran a tad long for this mother of all jams...
ANSEL ADAMS is best known for his sweeping, almost unbelievable, landscapes. And while one admires his choice of subjects and skillful execution, one always wonders if he was not just a tad naive--if his view of the world was not a bit too rosy...