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...least seven cities, lady cops are driving squad cars, responding to radio calls and investigating crimes. Their experience to date indicates that their sex does not handicap them on the job. Indeed, for the service calls that account for 80% to 90% of police activity, it may be an asset...
...actors like ill-fitting clothes. On the other hand, the frenetic chase scene in which all the characters find their true identities and their happy ending works very well. Like the staging of director Ruth Berger, the music the orchestra blares throughout the evening is not always an asset to the show. Neither are a few of the vocal performances, nor the erratic lighting...
...added that, despite the pressures, creativity in Russian literature had not been extinguished. "It really never occurs to them," he said, "that a writer who thinks differently from the majority of society represents an asset to that society, and not a disgrace or a defect...
...Escher's asset was an intricately schematic intelligence, and this he used with such wit and patience that he became, without modern rival, a master of visual paradox. A great many of Escher's prints were about teasingly blocked situations. They are scientific demonstrations of how to visualize the impossible. What they propose is a kind of n-dimensional reality in which the laws of perception are temporarily repealed. The most innocent images contain excruciating traps...
...result, Pompidou is almost assured of a victory that he can flaunt as a strong vote of personal confidence. That will be a valuable asset if, as many observers expect, Pompidou hopes to carve out for himself a role as primus inter pares next October when the ten leaders of the "new Europe" hold their first summit meeting in Paris...