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...Geneva-based journal International Defense Review, Moscow has been warning that the new weapon is an ominous escalation of the nuclear arms race. The Jericho II "is a direct challenge to the Soviet Union," claimed Radio Moscow in its Hebrew- language broadcast. Responding to reports that an advanced version of the Jericho II might have a range of 900 miles, the announcer added, "Israel's leaders must think twice about the effect of the development of a missile that can hit Soviet territory...
...week. Israeli officials privately spread the word that the Jericho II has a range of only 500 miles, which would mean it could strike Arab capitals but would fall short of Soviet territory. At the same time, however, it is believed that Israel is working on a longer-range version that would indeed bring the southern edge of the Soviet Union within its reach...
Perhaps the most striking symbol of Britain's impact came in the West End opening last week of Follies, not so much a revival as a complete reconsideration of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical, set at a reunion of performers of Ziegfeld-style spectacles. The original version won five Tony Awards but lost nearly all its then awesome $800,000 investment, and save for a 1985 Lincoln Center concert version, there has been no revival. The $3 million-plus London production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according...
...dresses and kick-stepping lines of chorus boys in top hats. One of the new numbers, performed deadpan by Diana Rigg, is a striptease ending in a bubble bath. The original Follies might have inspired the wisecrack that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, but in this version, it certainly...
...what followed. The show remains at once a brilliant pastiche and a prescient farewell to a style of musical that became the most popular form of theater in history but that no one seems willing or able to write anymore. The guts of the story, as in the first version, are plaintive solos for disillusioned women: Broadway Baby, in which an old show girl (Margaret Courtenay) recalls youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What I Did for Love; Who's That Woman?, a realization by a brassy belter (Lynda Baron...