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...with Britain over the Falkland Islands was under formal arrest. Galtieri was soon joined by the other members of the military junta who ruled Argentina during those inglorious days: former Navy Commander in Chief Jorge Isaac Anaya and Air Force Commander in Chief Basilio Lami Dozo. The trio of arrests gave a strong signal that Argentina's discredited armed forces were finally about to begin court-martial proceedings against their former superiors in connection with the Falklands debacle, a war that left 1,366 Argentines dead and ultimately inspired the country's return last year to civilian rule...
Just now the center of the Beckett universe is a pair of off-Broadway houses on Manhattan's 42nd Street. In the Harold Clurman Theater, a trio of Beckett skits has been playing since June. And last week, at the newly named Samuel Beckett Theater next door, English Actress Billie Whitelaw opened in two short plays and a reading of the Beckett short story Enough...
...Each trio of plays was directed by Alan Schneider; each lasts barely an hour, excluding intermissions; each offers an indelible evening of minimalist theater sorcery. The one visible magician is Whitelaw, for whom Beckett wrote the two sepulchral mood pieces Footfalls and Rockaby. Scraping across the stage or hardly moving in her shroud of a rocking chair, she performs daredevil isometric exercises of the soul. - By Richard Corliss
...week's end the chances for Gemayel's survival improved slightly. After meeting in Damascus for two days, the leaders of the National Salvation Front, including Jumblatt, former President Suleiman Franjieh and former Prime Minister Rashid Karami, listed their demands. The trio asked for a hand in rebuilding the Lebanese Army and rescinding legislative decrees that they contended favor the Christians; as expected, the group also insisted on scrapping the May 17 Israeli-Lebanese accord. Significantly, the front did not call for Gemayel's resignation. His aides greeted the declaration with guarded optimism. According to a Gemayel...
...from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin's cathedral of a roller rink, the spectator knows he is in for 2½ hours of big themes and outsize emotions. By the end of the first act, Anna has re-enacted her gang rape by a trio of punks; at the end of the second and final act, Angel releases a cascade of personal traumas involving her father, her dead boyfriend and a surprise-package daughter. The rink that was to be razed is literally raised: the set disappears into the flies to reveal a beckoning Atlantic...