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Sandinista fears of American intervention were unfortunately given credibility by two stories-clearly based on leaks-that appeared in the U.S. press last week. In a piece by Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) and Patrick Tyler, the Washington Post said that President Reagan had approved a $19 million CIA plan to create a 500-member paramilitary force of Latin Americans to "disrupt" the Nicaraguan regime. The next day, the New York Times said that the U.S. was providing the money for covert support of individuals and organizations within Nicaragua, in an attempt to bolster that country's moderate elements...
...much stuff [is] coming out of the department." If he only knew what was to follow. Notes taken at nearly two dozen private sessions with his senior staff found their way to Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward and last week ended up splashed on the paper's front page...
...actors and theatrical performance in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York City. Over five decades, the Polish-born Strasberg, a discerning but caustic pedagogue, helped shape such future stars as Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, John Garfield, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Eli Wallach, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Strasberg's technique, the so-called Method, was inspired by a system developed by the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky. Through the use of physical and emotional exercises, Strasberg taught his pupils to forgo external acting tricks and "internalize" roles, drawing on reservoirs of their own experience and feeling. Strasberg...
...marital situation comedy a bit like A Doll's House turned upside down. Candida (Joanne Woodward) treats her husband James Morell (Ron Parady) rather like a doll. When the poor devil is thoroughly terrified that she will leave him for the ardent young poet Marchbanks (Tait Ruppert), Candida elects to stay put, and domestic tranquillity is restored...
...current revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is never more than adequate. Returning to the stage after an absence of 17 years, Joanne Woodward is gracious, kindly and attractive but a trifle too effusive and lacking in the magnetism that would drive two men to distraction...