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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. In Tom Stoppard's arresting drama, the Wittenberg Wunderkinder wander around Elsinore like two extras to whom no roles have been assigned, and who cannot even decide whether they are part of a comedy or a tragedy...
...Painted with normal eyes, a figure can wander off the canvas," John D. Graham once observed. To understand that remark, it is necessary to know something about Graham. Born Ivan Dabrowsky in Russia, he was a little-known painter who became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention...
...political savvy to be rhythmically re-elected by his constituents. Thanks to his influence, charge Pearson-Anderson, his home town of Charleston had military installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service on the military committees like a tick on a fat dog." But the authors wander astray when they maintain that he is "America's top security risk" because of his drinking problem. He has gone on the wagon since he became committee chairman...
...much as anyone, it was Castro himself who ensured Che's defeat by leaving him to wander in Bolivia with neither the proper material nor moral support. James ascribes that betrayal to their longstanding rivalry. Had Che succeeded in leading a continental revolution, he would have emerged the greater leader, and might well have jeopardized Castro's future position. For his part, Che, as the apostle of Communist revolution in Latin America, had little choice but to go to Bolivia. Concludes James: "He needed a revolution far more than the revolution needed...
...flax, and cast candles with the laborious, loving skill of their 18th century predecessors. They can dine at the King's Arms, where costumed waiters slightly self-consciously ask the guests if they want their napkins tied around their necks, 18th century style. Best of all, they can wander beside ox-drawn carts along quiet, auto-free streets, amble through dozens of fragrant, carefully tended gardens, gaze over fields of maize or grazing sheep without seeing a telephone pole or TV aerial...