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INSIDE THE BELTWAY, the chaos has reigned, As Congress and Prexy have battled in vain. "Cut here, cut there," our leader opined But kudos to Tipster for holding the line. Things that go "boom" have been much in the news, But Ronnie and Misha took too long to schmooze. Both top bananas get thorns for delay In meeting each other for a moot nuke nay-say. A wide-open range awaits Lucky the dog, In Ronnie's agenda he won't be a cog. To his master we offer the same one-way flight As far west as need...
...countless attempts to round off the novel's Gothic plot. The story echoes Dickens' familiar themes of unspoken sexual obsession, middle-class hypocrisy and the crushing burden of guilty secrets. It also contains some of his wittiest portraits of pomp and vanity. Fans of the book will look in vain for more than vague resemblances in the amiable musical version that opened on Broadway last week. Composer- Author Rupert Holmes has framed Drood within a Victorian music-hall pastiche, and the actors play both Dickens' characters and the rowdy, self- mocking buskers of a troupe nearly as atrocious...
...when Vanities opens with three high school cheerleaders planning a pep rally, we jaded Harvard students are inclined to be skeptical--skeptical about whether any of us could possibly pull such a play off, and skeptical about the worth of any play which focuses on the lives of three vain cheerleaders...
...bottom line is that faculty egos are too fragile to face their faults, then the quest for a course guide will have been in vain...
...licenses come up for renewal. FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, being a Reaganite who believes in less government, wants to abolish the Fairness Doctrine. He knows he won't be allowed to. Too many pressure groups from right to left enjoy the Government-granted chance to have their say. In vain do broadcasters protest that with the spread of cable television, there are plenty of TV channels available, and that nearly 10,000 radio stations exist. What has become scarcer is the independent newspaper, of which there is usually only one to a community. When it comes to fairness, broadcasters have...