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...plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess -- Albee fashions a spellbinder. Just when he exhausts the potential of naturalistic melodrama, a brilliant gimmick, part special effect and part structural surprise, lets him move into deeper philosophical terrain...
...decade: the rebuilding virtually from the ground up of Southeast Asia's second most populous nation. A land that underwent almost 30 years of continuous warfare -- including bombing by more tonnage of explosives than was dropped by the Allies on Germany in World War II -- is still largely ruined terrain. About 4,000 bridges and 50,000 miles of roads need to be replaced or repaired. Hanoi anticipates spending about $1 billion before the turn of the century on harbor-dredging projects alone. The country also needs power plants, additional airliners and new hotels, dozens of which are already under...
...next to a White House gate, balancing a flagpole from which hung a black banner inscribed POW-MIA. He is a frequent and unnecessary reminder to Bill Clinton that the psychological and emotional turf of a war that took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans is dangerous terrain to a President who did not serve...
...spirit of '77 was overamplified youth rebellion, as personified by Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Strummer et al, then the spirit of 1979 was all about experimentation: building new kinds of musical structures in the postapocalyptic terrain of post-punk, post-boom, post-rock and roll England. Nobody did it better than the London-based Raincoats, whose 1979 first LP has reappeared in America as a DGC CD (apparently at the request of some guy from Seattle named Cobain, who's been a big Raincoats fan for years). If they're famous for anything, the Raincoats are famous for their feminism...
This is familiar terrain for the experts in Washington, who say the main focus of the new intelligence estimate is considerably broader: an attempt by the U.S. Government to decide whether Pyongyang might ever be persuaded to give up its bomb program. The Defense Intelligence Agency took the most pessimistic view in the interagency study. Pentagon analysts think the North Koreans already have a bomb and are using the negotiations in order to buy time to advance their nuclear program...