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Faced with the people's restlessness and the discrepancy be tween a dogmatic Marxian approach to economics and the evident reality, some Communist states have become surprisingly experimental- heretical even. In some of their demands, the workers of Gdansk were asking only for what their comrades in Hungary gained years ago. Yugoslavia practices a renegade Communism that allows for certain capitalist trappings...
Willie, a teacher, looks for spiritual sustenance by dropping out in variously predictable ways (subsistence farming, for example, or an ashram in India). Phil, a photographer, provides contrast by selling out as a director of television commercials. The lady (with her inevitable child) shuttles more or less agreeably be tween them until she finally leaves them both wrestling on the beach-at first angrily, then playfully. Other things may come and go, but male bonding is apparently forever...
Oklahoma! is nothing if not escapist. The creaky book centers on true love be tween Curly, a bold man, and Laurey (Christine Andreas), a spirited maiden, aided by an earthy matchmaker, Aunt Eller (Mary Wickes). They make it real, even when the dialogue resembles subtitles from a silent movie. As in the silents, there is a villain, Jud, played by Martin Vidnovic, who brings to a thankless role a Freudian depth of characterization and a richly textured voice...
...counter-strike obliterates Minsk. The realignment after the war leaves Moscow's former do main Balkanized and at peace, but Africa remains tumultuous. Depending on what course China-Japan takes, say the generals, it seems likely that the conflict leading to World War IV may not be be tween East and West, but between affluent North and starving South. In the meantime, the chroniclers of The Third World War urge us to support our local military-industrial complex, and to watch out for the Soviets when they begin to slip. Roger...
Roots 11 begins in 1882, twelve years after the close of Roots I, and ends in 1967, the year Alex Haley went to Africa to search for traces of his ancestor Kunta Kinte. In the hours be tween, the show charts the lives of four generations of the author's family. The first segment ends with the death of Kun ta Kinte's grandson, Chicken George (Avon Long); by the final episode the viewer has briefly seen Haley's own chil dren. As before, public events are dramatized in terms of their effect on one black family...