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There was an element of condescension in Mondale's stressing just a little too much the implication that the President was not in command of the material and was not sharp enough. I think he overdid that, and I think he was wrong. I think that out of this debate Reagan emerges looking somewhat more presidential, and Mondale looks like somebody who has learned a number of speeches, which were presented with reasonable eloquence but which really didn't hang together. Mondale tried to get both to the left and the right of President Reagan and thus provided...
...versatility: one play at a time. So the R.S.C.'s twin bill of Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac, now on Broadway for a ten-week run, offers the American theatergoer a rare opportunity to see the world's top rep company in its element - an "at home" abroad...
...Romance and Industry. A new element enters into literature; women writers are accepted on a par with men as long as men don't know they are women...
Bauer comes into her element in the second act. Part of the magic comes from a careful economy of movement. By perfecting antique, elongated shapes, Bauer gives the illusion of being supported by thin air. The absence of superfluous gestures suspends this illusion even further. With light, fluttering footwork and muted, delicate poses, Bauer surrenders her soul to the supernatural world of the willis...
...paid by dividends from companies doing business in South Africa. In law this line of reasoning is known as reductio ad absurdem. In politics it is known as the oldest excuse for inertia. Who knows what the immediate effects of Harvard divestment would be for South Africa? The psychological/political element, if considered at all, is vastly underestimated I think, and even if the economic effects are slight, the example set by Harvard will have lasting value both in South Africa as during the Olympics, and although no one would argue that denial of the broadcast rights to South Africa hurt...