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Overhangs the set. As the breath of an echo...
...characters in Samuel Beckett's plays are continually drawing their next-to-last breath of life. Thus it is fitting that three old playlets of his-Act Without Words (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961)-and one new one, Not I, are currently on view at the Forum, little sister to the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Thanks to a fiscally inept board of directors, the Forum is drawing its last foreseeable breath with the Beckett quartet...
...Greeks created the word for it: politikos. They also had plenty of other words to define the various rhetorical ploys that are the very breath of politics. That is the wry message of a new book called that pestilent cosmetic, rhetoric, by Sol Chaneles, a New York University sociologist, and Jerome Snyder, author-illustrator. In it they provide some updated definitions for classical rhetorical terms plus piquant examples from contemporary national politics...
John Kenneth Galbraith skated off, his kilt swaying, mumbling unemployment figures under his breath. Since his last publication, it has been said that he has been unable to balance his check-book. "Plus the balance of power, carry...
...paused a few seconds to catch his breath and then plunged ahead. "When Jimmy heard the news, he was a little worried, I'll admit. I mean, he and I went on this walk, and he was walking 200 miles an hour. I couldn't keep up with...