Word: vu
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West by Steven Berkoff. A Berkoff play (Greek, Metamorphosis, Hamlet) is simultaneously avant-garde and deja vu. Actors in whiteface mime extravagant gestures, confronting the audience with stylized, scatological invective. It is like being back in the rumble seat of '60s performance art, but with a raw poetic urgency. Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney...
Joining the fray, Pierre Hassner, of France's National Foundation of Political Science, added, "I cannot help a feeling of déjà vu when you [Americans] talk about the dangers of leaving the region. It is what we said about Algeria and what you said about Viet Nam. You always fail to appreciate the basic problem, which is domestic change. You are in a no-win situation. It would be better to cut your losses and obtain, as you did in Cuba, a guarantee that there will be no Soviet bases there to be used against...
...were saw something that had never appeared on U.S. screens before: a Soviet leader conducting a press conference in Moscow, live. It was not exactly American-style-the questions were mostly written, not shouted by reporters-but it was close enough to arouse feelings of déjà vu. The Kremlin apparently wanted to make the maximum publicity splash for its official reply to President Reagan's Euromissile proposals. So the Soviet foreign ministry began notifying reporters on Wednesday, hours after Reagan had stopped speaking, that Andrei Gromyko, the U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister, would meet with them...
...withholding measure ignited an acrimonious déjà vu debate. "It is a second shot by the American Bankers Association not only to hold up the jobless and homeless but now all those who depend on Social Security," fumed Kansas Republican Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. At a White House meeting of congressional leaders, President Reagan also lashed out. "I've had it up to here with the bankers," he declared, throwing his glasses on the table. "They're sitting on their keisters when they should be lowering interest rates." The outbursts had their...
This is not an attractive prospect, perhaps not even for the Russians. Should they arrive, book lovers among them might experience a sense of déjà vu. From Mexico to the islands of southern Chile and Argentina, there is a burst of literary energy reminiscent of the age of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Great differences exist between the writers of 19th century Russia and 20th century Latin America, but so do profound similarities. Both groups have had to face provincialism, political suppression and foreign influences that threatened to drown out their native voices...