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...disturbing element of this play is the scene endings. The play as a whole is a light treatment of the grotesque side of human affairs. The cast successfully conveys the repressed insanity that lies beneath social forms. But at the end of about half the scenes, the grotesque is fired at the audience point blank: so-and-so dies, so-and-so is trapped forever. Admittedly, the alternative of "inheriting five million rubies" is ridiculous; still, one does attend a Neil Simon comedy to get such depressing tidbits of reality. Perhaps there is some social message here about the nature...
...West Germany, while still harboring strong doubts about eventual deployment, have independently grown more interested in the research program's industrial potential; one key West German defense official predicts that it will lead to "a third technological revolution." French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas proclaimed that the S.D.I. contains "an element of seduction...
During the first two years of his White House tenure, Ronald Reagan rarely immersed himself in the arcane details of nuclear issues. The difficult minutiae seemed to bore him. But one broader element intrigued him: the question of whether there was any realistic alternative to Mutual Assured Destruction. To Reagan, MAD was the equivalent of two men pointing cocked pistols at each other...
...even humorous. Despite their efforts, however, this experiment in music and drama fails to achieve a synthesis; if anything, it takes on enough affectations to raise the hackles of the most indulgent of theatre-goers. Enough said--let us direct out attention and our gaze towards the truly memorable element in the production: the poster for the CIVIL WarS on the back wall...
...means to continue their struggle may soon become critical. In Washington, the Reagan Administration showed little sign last week that it would alter its policy of sending only humanitarian assistance to the Kampucheans. Said a U.S. official: "Involving ourselves directly against the Vietnamese would introduce an East-West element into this, and perhaps ASEAN should take the lead...