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Some plays open windows; others open worlds. The excitement attending Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is that it is one of those rare plays able to open worlds of art, life and death. The sun of this drama is coruscating wit and laughter; its shade is melancholy death. Broadway may not see a more auspicious playwriting debut this season...
Testifying before Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees last week, wit ness after witness reported on the plight of Vietnamese civilians engulfed by the war. Their point was not that the U.S. ought to end the misery by quitting the fight and get out of Viet Nam. They were all there to argue that the U.S. will lose the war if it does not double its efforts to care for Viet Nam's hordes of refugees and civilian wounded...
...such as the Baboon and Young, with toy auto for a head and metal spring for a tail, are so well known that they set all sorts of precedents for the neo-Dadaists of the 1960s. But in this category, too, there are delightful examples of Picasso's wit never seen before, including a little girl caught skipping rope in mid-jump, and a pipe-tube, stiffly starched nurse pushing a baby in a pram...
With a touch of sly wit, undaunted Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff said: "I have great respect for the judgment of the New York Times, and if they have come to the conclusion to stay out of the afternoon, they are probably right." Not that the threat of the Times seemed to frighten her very much. "I really didn't do too much thinking about it. I've seen so many papers come and go that it really doesn't worry me too much. If we survived the merger of those three papers into the World Journal Tribune...
...this Technicolor collage substitutes fake eccentricity for true humor. One man wears a toupee that looks like melted LPs, another drinks nothing but brandy and egg whites-it looks as if someone had expectorated in it, says Sellers, in a fair sample of the film's scripted wit. And nearly everybody speaks in a pseudo-Castilian lisp that thoundth ath if the entire catht hath a thpeech defect...