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...supply. The scenes of idle gas pumps and irate drivers, which evoked memories of oil shocks of the 1970s, were the result of weather-related supply disruptions, according to the government. The fuel flow was quickly restored, but no one is willing to predict the gas lines won't recur...
However rapidly Reagan may recover, though--and he made a remarkable snap back from his brush with death when an assassin's bullet felled him in March 1981--his health from now on will need close monitoring. Polyps have a tendency to recur; the one removed Saturday was the third detected since Reagan became President. Moreover, as many doctors put it, the kind of intestine that repeatedly grows polyps is the kind that has to be watched for signs of cancer...
...quickly explained that the President had a better-than-50% chance to live out his normal life. But the medical experts could not rule out the possibility that cancerous cells had escaped into the bloodstream and, like a microscopic time bomb, seeded themselves in another organ. If cancer should recur, the President could face a long and debilitating course of therapy that would make the heavy burden of the presidency more onerous...
Fittingly, mirrors are a frequent motif in the production, as is symmetry. Images recur, often happening twice simultaneously, giving the effect of parallax. This device serves both to represent the situation’s independence of time, or to simulate the internal repetition in the characters’ minds of the painful events that transpire...
...human travail, with lyrics like “Somebody loses and somebody wins/ And one day it’s kicks, then it’s kicks in the shins/ But the planet spins, and the world goes ‘round.” Variations on this theme recur toward the end of the production, creating a unified, circular whole...