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...down and through and through./ We argued and we barg-ued!/ We decided what to do." The jingling verse of Hunches in Bunches (Random House; $5.95) could come only from the prescription pad of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel). At 78, Geisel retains his unique ability to wrap a concept in clothing. This time he portrays hunches, tempting the indecisive protagonist away from his homework. The good doctor is an eye-and-ear specialist; his infectious rhymes are meant to be read aloud...
...reactions to watching his younger self, who is in turn watching and discussing the tapes he made on his 28th birthday, he makes several false starts, "editing himself" on the tape, adding an ongoing self-commentary. Instead of illuminating Krapp's personality, the layers of introspection intentionally wrap the narrator in more and more mystery...
...Habib had yet to wrap up the how and the when, and negotiations were going on under the gun, literally. Prime Minister Menachem Begin repeated his government's threats that Israel would mount an all-out assault on the Lebanese capital to destroy Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization if a way could not be found for the P.L.O. to leave peacefully. At the same time, in an obvious attempt to increase the pressure on the P.L.O., Israeli forces bombarded the beleaguered city and its southern suburbs for seven straight days before Habib managed to arrange still another...
...when I began to consider the subject. . . I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback. I should never be able to . . . come to a conclusion. I should never be able to . . . hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point?a woman must have money and a room...
...major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...