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...moment too soon. As life and fine print grow more complicated, all those champions of the downtrodden, avengers of the defrauded and writers of wrongs find themselves very much in demand. Last year Action Line columns answered more than 2 million complaints. Action Lines unmask unscrupulous repairpersons, humble haughty bureaucrats, chasten heartless computers, stay the hands of overeager credit companies, track lost merchandise to the ends of the zip-coded universe and locate spare parts for Polish-built refrigerators. They are the new Miss Lonelyhearts, multiplied many times over. As White House Consumer Adviser Esther Peterson told them...
...news organization to lobby behind the scenes or support a controversial cause financially. Yet a number of papers and journalists' groups have codes of ethics that ban such involvement. Whether or not Florida's press succeeds in defeating casino gambling, news organizations that intend to unmask conflicts of interest among public figures may find it prudent to avoid potential entanglements themselves...
...other hand, ex-Actor Tryon is canny enough to know that it is a crock of gold. He has not, after all, chosen to unmask malaise on the assembly line or among welfare mothers. Crowned Heads is crammed with enough props to put MGM back in production. No clef is needed for this roman. Real stars parade by in abundance. Tryon also provides long lists of plausible but fictive movies and imaginary songs that set America humming (Ditto, Really Truly True). Even the four principal characters are amalgams of known personalities. Fedora owes something to Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson...
...imply more complex, less apparent relationships. "Between Two Moons," choreographed by Harvard senior Andy Borg as his thesis, is a subtle satire. Three harlequins meet on what appears to be an empty city street at night. The figures come swirling together, "sharing energies" as Borg puts it, only to unmask themselves after the encounter and whirl apart. In "Plot," more obvious parody accompanies a more explicit depiction of the relationships between the characters. A pair of female clowns performs whenever a male clown, shod in huge flippers, blows on his horn. Two strolling figures enter and, by depriving the trumpeter...
Hortencia Busia de Allende, widow of the late Chilean president, last night called the present military junta of Chile a "regime which violates all human rights," and praised Americans who worked to "unmask U.S. aggression in Chile...