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...tiny minority of Viet Nam veterans were exposed to Agent Orange. Yet the Veterans Administration's handling of the issue has ranged from indifferent to slipshod, and serves for the veterans as a vivid example of Government callousness. Dioxin, the toxic ingredient in Agent Orange, has been linked with skin diseases, birth defects and cancer. Yet, according to reports last month by both the General Accounting Office and the Office of Technology Assessment, the VA has been inexcusably reluctant to study the effects of Agent Orange and has provided only cursory, inadequate medical exams...
...same time Bourgeois's imagination has a nasty side, as real acts of exorcism must. The fantasies her art expels into the chaste gallery space have as much to do with incest and cannibalism as with the more usual aesthetic satisfactions of MOMA. The most vivid of them, and the crudest, is a sort of grotto full of pendulous brown stalactites, lumpy and breastlike...
...vivid example is the longstanding effort to ease the plight of Russian Jewry, which predates even the Soviet era. In 1911, American Jewish organizations lobbied hard to abrogate a 79-year-old commercial treaty, largely in retaliation for the tsarist government's discrimination against, and repression of, Jews. The campaign was successful on Capitol Hill, and the Taft Administration reluctantly terminated the treaty. The consequence for Russian Jews was a step-up in official antiSemitism...
Hostages in Iran; mendicants trampled near the Ganges; Hindus and Muslims arguing and imploring in a post-Sanskrit Babel of belief. This is the ominous Oriental setting of Don DeLillo's (End Zone, Ratner's Star) seventh and most accomplished novel. There, in prose as vivid and densely knotted as a prayer rug, his characters find freshly printed petrodollars competing with ancient formality. This, in DeLillo's phrase, is the world of "plastic sandals and public beheadings...
...scene building he goes consistently for the concrete and vivid; when characters speak from within the set a maze of scaffolding covering the back wall, skillful lighting and mime make their spaces substantive rather than symbolic. Rather than trying to fill the vast mainstage with gimmickry--as direction after director has done--Magaril and choreographer Sabrina Peck simply fill it. Good blocking spreads actors to keep the open spaces under control. The full-company numbers sparkles with movement, much of it painstakingly researched to mirror actual on-the-job motions, an astonishing proportion of it in synch. And in Magaril...