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WATCHING THE A.R.T. actors play themselves is, of course, amusing. They toss out references to Brother Blue and Brattle Street, to Harvard professors, Yale graduates, and to old mainstage productions. In true Pirandellian fashion, much of the action derives from improvisation. The dialogue is uneven--some jokes work, others fall flat. Occasionally the references seem designed to pander to A.R.T. subscribers, but on the whole, the company projects the sense of actors at work...
...athletes have never been particularly enthusiastic Red-baiters. Innuendoes do fly like javelins over female village smithies who toss anvils for totalitarian states. In 1976, the last Summer Games attended by Americans, the U.S. women swimmers could have taken their thumping by East Germany more gracefully. Some muttered that the Germans' particular star, Kornelia Ender, resembled a man, though she did not look like a man to men, certainly not to Roland Mathes, who married her. He was the G.D.R.'s top male swimmer, and a friendship between Mathes and John Naber, the best American, was evident...
...hand. Here, after all, is the entire challenge: as heads of state and their armies go about their customary business of covert operations, assassinations or gas attacks, a group of young people in shorts would like to show how long they can jump, how far they can toss a hammer, how accurately they can shoot a ball into a basket. Can the mighty nations conspire to let them have their way? Is the technology there, the power? Putting things in terms of bureaucratic efficiency: If governments cannot make a foot race work, what can they...
...hungry Finance Minister Jacques Delors swoops down from a helicopter to collect the franc used in the coin toss of a soccer match. Intent on projecting French military power abroad. Defense Minister Charles Hernu leads an attack against the tiny principality of Monaco: "Ack-ack-ack!" President Francois Mitterrand interrupts his compulsive globetrotting for a rare visit to Paris and, shuddering at what he finds, hightails away again...
...months of acrimonious campaigning, the U.S.-backed process to choose that battered country's first freely elected President in 50 years drew to an end late last week. As up to 1.7 million voters prepared to trek to the polls, the seven-man race was still considered a toss-up between the controversial front runners, José Napoleón Duarte, 58, of the center-left Christian Democratic Party (P.D.C.), and Roberto d'Aubuisson, 40, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, known as ARENA. There was a good chance that neither candidate would win the outright majority required for election...