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...Absence, Douglas Turner Ward's one-act play of 1965, a Southern town wakes up one morning to find that all its black people have disappeared. The result is so chaotic -- garbage piling up, houses left uncleaned, meals uncooked -- that the whites plead for the blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government...
COPY DESK: Barbara Dudley Davis, Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Irene Gashurov, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...Goma found that food distribution was badly skewed. Former soldiers, officials and militiamen are living well, hoarding donated food and blankets and selling these supplies at high prices. At the same time, nearly half the camp population -- notably the elderly, women and children -- are not getting enough food to ward off malnutrition...
...Republican nominee is Foley's strongest adversary in recent memory: not for his political credentials, but for his lack of them. George Nethercutt, an affable, politically moderate 49-year-old adoption and estate lawyer from Spokane, comes across like Ward Cleaver and punctuates his campaign speeches with such cardigan-elbowed jibes as, "I don't want to be the Speaker. I want to be the listener." And while he respectfully and boyishly refers to the Speaker as "Mr. Foley," his hard-edged campaign ads paint the incumbent as the symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington. As Nethercutt spokesman...
COPY DESK: Barbara Dudley Davis, Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Irene Gashurov, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...