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...play's contents scarcely bear examining-a falsely expected legacy, an unmarried daughter who proves scandalously pregnant, a maimed son slain by his comrades as a suspected informer. With these mundane materials, O'Casey unleashes a torrent of engulfing emotions. The actors are up to the challenge. Though he sometimes seems about as Irish as chopped chicken liver and onion on rye, Matthau is full of baleful Gaelic braggadocio as Captain Boyle. As Joxer, Lemmon is as spry and cunning as a soiled city sparrow, and for once, Maureen Stapleton acts from her heart rather than her frazzled...
...scientific study determined that if the accident occurred at about 11:30 p.m., as Kennedy's time frame indicates, the tide at the bridge would have been slightly less than one knot, far weaker than the torrent that Kennedy claimed swept him away from the car. Had the accident taken place an hour later, as indicated by a deputy sheriff who saw a car like Kennedy's on Dike Road at 12:45 a.m., the tide would have been about 1.3 knots...
...those who say we should prosecute Mr. Nixon, I say that the man is not an "ordinary" citizen. He has been subjected to the largest torrent of criticism and hate ever directed at one individual. We should not extend the Nixon family's agony. Mr. Nixon has had punishment enough...
...spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent of American spies is spilling into the U.S.S.R., in the guise of businessmen, scholars, students, tourists and diplomats. Underscoring the supposed menace, Soviet Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov addressed the nation on television in a rare public appearance last month. "Reactionaries spend millions of dollars for intelligence and subversive services...
...fiction do anything for the war in Viet Nam that ten years of TV film clips and a torrent of journalism did not? After all the surfeits of that war-the distant carnage, the fallout of casualties closer to home, the national agony of consciousness and political dislocation in the U.S.-can the imagination of a storyteller offer anything more than a few slice-of-death memories...