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Why is theater so fascinated with failure? Could it be the sense of inferiority the American stage occasionally displays towards the European? The jealousy of the theater towards the mega-successful cinema? An expression of the neurotic personalities typical of live performers? Perhaps the theater cannot represent the heroic or...

Author: By Cvrus M. Sanat, | Title: Bust Town | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Given the weakness of South Viet Nam, the determination of the North and the extent of the aid it could count on from the Soviet Union and neighboring China, even some hawks concede that Hanoi's victory might have been inevitable. Says Military Analyst Luttwak: "Some wars simply cannot be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Lessons From a Lost War | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

The obsession with the smallest detail of life, while rejecting a role for market forces and independent decision making, is both the system's political backbone and its crippling weakness. The chief beneficiaries of overcentralization are the nomenklatura, the 750,000 to 1 million members of the bureaucratic elite at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking on the Bureaucracy | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Moreover, U.S. foreign policy. Chomsky charged in his 90 minute speech, aims to maintain Third World weakness so America can dominate and exploit it.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chomsky Assails U.S. Policy in Nicaragua | 3/20/1985 | See Source »

The most common lament of stage actresses is a lack of good parts for older women. The Octette Bridge Club, a comedy about eight matronly Irish Catholic sisters who meet every other Friday during the 1930s and 1940s to play cards and swap stories, remedies that problem. The narrative is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Painful Truth the Octette Bridge Club | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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