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...Bless America. These shows may be aimed primarily at teens and preteens, but it is only from the canny nonsense of Square Pegs (CBS, Monday, 8-8:30 p.m.) that such viewers are likely to get a buzz of recognition. Weemawee High, happily, is not in the same time warp as Crestridge; in fact, it might pass for any local school where the students have actually heard of New Wave and use "punks" to mean musicians, not young criminals. Weemawee is a cockeyed canvas of persuasively contemporary adolescence across which Producer Anne Beatts (a former Saturday Night Live writer...
...England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...
...dealing with a time warp," says UPI's Foreign Editor Paul Varian. "The British sink a ship and it takes forever to find out." But perhaps that is not all for the bad. As McDonald might say, see King John, Act IV, Scene 2, line 133 ("Do not seek to stuff my head with more ill news, for it is full"). -By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Maureen Down/New York and Arthur White/London
...conclusion to Bitter Fruit, then, remains to be written Like the result of a scary time warp, the Reagan Administration is taking up right where Allen Dulles and his CIA left off. As Schlesinger and Kinzer so effectively argue, this type of policy has no victors--only victims. Eventually, the people of Guatemala, after much senseless bloodshed, will rise up as they did in 1945 and rid themselves of whichever dictator happens to be in power. Then the United States, rightly perceived as the ally of repression, will lose another potential friend to the Soviet camp. The bitter fruit...
These nine stories were left out of The Star Diaries (1976), an English translation of a 1971 Polish collection by Author Stanislaw Lem. The fact that this new book has thus tumbled out of a time warp seems entirely appropriate to its contents. More so, in fact, than the rather misleading title. Lem is not concerned here with rockets or star treks; only two stories take Ijon Tichy, the peripatetic hero and chronicler of The Star Diaries, away from planet Earth. The space that is traveled is chiefly cranial; vast internal distances are covered by leaps of imagination...