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...Itallie molds his play around the tale of Genesis, interspersing modern-day anecdotes and events with re-enactments of chapters of the First Book. He seems to believe that the Old Testament offers an eternal guide to human psychology and the model for a vaguely cyclical interpretation of history. But the analogies he sets up are tenuous and, one suspects, carelessly thought out. The mythical and the mundane are only superficially integrated, and the serious analysis which the playwright looks to be inviting is better left untried...
...eyes" and "grab the men's balls"--a lame evocation of hostility made even more hokey by the gratuitous vulgarity. While couples copulate with increasing fervor and come, for what can only be a choreographic reason, together, a choral voice-over ludicrously intones the entire series of Old Testament begattings...
...Douglas Smith, 57, does not easily change his mind. The eleven-year history of renegade white rule in Rhodesia stands as testament to his stubbornness. It was the jut-jawed Smith who, in 1965, led the self-governing British colony into making a unilateral declaration of independence in order to block London's intention of bringing about black majority rule. In the years that followed, Smith led white Rhodesia's dukes-up resistance to international pressure for change. But it was Smith, too, who finally agreed to accept reality. His epochal meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Henry...
...summit conference. A solemn-faced, tall (6 ft.) and commanding-looking man, Hua denounced the "new czars" in the Kremlin, arguing that the Soviets are continuing Russia's imperialist traditions. Reaching deep into the 18th century, the Premier warned that in Peter the Great's purported "testament" Russia had already laid claim to South Asia. Hua declared that war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is inevitable -a contention Schlesinger disputed. The Premier added that the U.S. must maintain its naval strength in the Pacific against a possible Soviet attack...
...much-anticipated first presidential debate of 1976. It turned out to be an underwhelming event, the debate in which the power failed and in which neither man gained a decisive edge. The situation after the 90-minute confrontation?interrupted by a 27-minute audio blowout that was a testament to the fallibilities of television ?was much the same as before. Carter was out front but slipping; Ford was coming up from behind, and the election had suddenly turned into a close race...