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...most memorable moments in the show was a third O'Neill inspiration, during the entrance of the female chorus. It is an entrance Gilbert wrote again and again: a troop of 19th-century teenyboppers--cheerful, bordering on birdbrained--appears, "gaily tripping, lightly skipping," "tripping hither, tripping hither," or, in this case, "climbing over rocky mountain, skipping rivulet and fountain." True to form, this batch of maidens comes merrily onstage, chirping away with nothing graver on their minds than their "fleeting leisure"--all except one. While her sisters hop and dance at the front of the stage, she lingers behind...
...became a star at 21 as the hard-punching innocent in Golden Boy (1939), but his appeal for the next 40 years was that of the man's man, cocky and cynical, meeting the demands of any situation head-on and with no sweat. He could lead a troop of renegade soldiers out of Stalag 17 (for which he won his Oscar as Best Actor) or across The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was equally at home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace...
...than the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...
...spite of first denying that Americans were involved with the Libyan military, the State Department, after discussing the matter with the CIA, last week confirmed that U.S. citizens have been hired to service, and work as crew members on, Libya's Hercules troop transport planes and Chinook military helicopters. Said a State Department spokesman of the activities promoted by the former CIA agents: "We find it reprehensible and against the interest of peace and security." Wilson, operating out of his posh villa in Tripoli, is still actively engaged in providing support for the Libyan military, and the Times quotes...
...borders and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. The Western Europeans, on the other hand, are impressed with the Fahd plan as a basis for future negotiations. Last week Britain, France, Italy and The Netherlands were preparing to contribute small troop contingents to a 2,500-member Sinai peace-keeping force (which will also include soldiers from the U.S. and several other countries). But they were planning to do so on the understanding that Washington would recognize the Europeans' right to play a renewed role in the Middle East. This week Lord Carrington...