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...come U.S. small airplanes, light machinery and computers. Steps of reprisal would be taken jointly by the six members of the Common Market, with Britain probably joining in. On a visit to the U.S. last month, Ralf Dahrendorf, the Common Market's top trade executive, raised an ironic toast to Wilbur Millsas the man who had done most recently to promote European unity. The threats have begun to weigh on some Congressmen, who realize that U.S. exports produce more income than the auto or home-building industry. The nation's exports this year are running...
Selby deftly handles a protracted episode of comic business with a plate of toast in the second act. But there are a few tiny points he should be more careful about. For instance, he slightly anticipates being stopped by the minister, when he ought not react until he actually feels the hand...
...Russia, where he endures the blatant irony of having a huge salad of royalty rubles thrust on him, Bech and the head of the Soviet Writers' Union joust with vodka glasses: "He toasts Jack London, I toast Pushkin. He does Hemingway, I do Turgenev. I do Nabokov, he counters with John Reed." Elsewhere, Bech vainly attempts to charm Yevtushenko by describing his own position in America not as a literary lion but as a "graying, furtively stylish rat indifferently permitted to gnaw and roam behind the wainscoting of a firetrap about to be demolished anyway...
...Annenberg has lately displayed greater sensitivity to British traditions of pomp and formality. Perhaps that is why a select group of Londoners recently received his invitation to an embassy party in honor of "Mr. Francis Sinatra." At the gathering, Francis himself was informal as ever. Responding to a toast, he held his glass high, looked warmly at the guests and said: "Bless your distinguished little hearts...
...rarity in the U.S. theater. Dean Jones has just the right low-keyed charm as the hero. Pamela Myers puts the audience under house arrest with a number called Another Hundred People. Beth Howland is hilarious as the wife who is too loving as she burns the toast. When it comes to Elaine Stritch and a wickedly caustic song called The Ladies Who Lunch, you just know that she has swallowed the cocktail glasses along with the martinis. They are all marvelous, and the pleasure of their Company awaits hundreds of thousands of people...