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...Snow Ball, like the best of Gurney's plays, is full of virtuosities. It is deft, insightful and winsome. The author's persistent tic is an unwillingness, perhaps an inability, to tell a straightforward story. No more than a few pages at a time of The Snow Ball unfold in chronological sequence. Instead, there are flashbacks, flashes forward, and crosscuts from one life story to another. Gurney is a master at this counterpoint. But he provides no crescendo, no epiphany. Despite many charms, The Snow Ball melts into fond but vague memory...
...Waldemar Chmielewski, a former lieutenant of the Polish secret police, stood up in the defendants' box, a nervous tic on the right side of his face caused his dark mustache to twitch uncontrollably. Chmielewski and three other members of the security forces went on trial two weeks ago in the city of Toruan, 100 miles northwest of Warsaw. They have been charged in last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a militant supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. It was Chmielewski's turn to testify last week, and the thought that his life might...
...record, "The Year of the Tiger," on which those words have been captured, is warped now, Excessive use has worn it, left it gashed and gouged, and you have to turn up the volume to bear Ernie's voice. It sounds like a 1930s radio broadcast, with tic, tic, tic, and the muffled voice of the commentator...
Surgery may also be appropriate in cases of the severe facial pain known as trigeminal neuralgia, or tic douloureux. For 16 years, Dr. Mat Boname, 81, of Oxford, N.Y., suffered this excruciating pain, despite the efforts of five doctors. Finally, a delicate operation in which electrically induced heat was used to destroy a facial nerve brought relief. The effect was immediate, he says: "When I came up from the operating room, I had no pain...
DIED. Jack Barry, 66, smooth founding father, producer and host of TV game shows, whose many creations included Concentration, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough; of a heart attack; in New York City. By 1958 he had four popular quiz shows on TV, among them the superhit Twenty One, with $129,000 Winner Charles Van Doren. Then investigations revealed Van Doren and other contestants had been coached. The resulting scandal wiped quiz shows, and Barry, off the air for years until he came back from near penury with Joker and others...