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...public demonstrations, sit-ins at local government offices and an interruption in food deliveries. Leaders of Rural Solidarity, as the movement is known, say that they will not call strikes unless their industrial counterpart approves, which is highly unlikely. Even so, the farmers have injected yet another substantial element of tension into the crisis. Said a West German Foreign Ministry specialist: "A month ago, even two weeks ago, an argument over the Warsaw court's decision not to register the farmers as an independent union would not have been so risky. But now a hair-trigger situation exists...
...Absolute War in Our Streets" [Nov. 24], your reporters suggest that it is irresponsible for police officers to encourage citizens to arm themselves. If government cannot provide protection, what is the answer? Roll over and let the criminal element do whatever it chooses? Or take up arms and defend yourself, your family and your property...
...projected?" It Loses truth. It hurts when you start to project Chekhov to a thousand-seat theater. I wanted something even more intimate than Chekhov, yet I wanted something gigantic too...I try to combine the radio-film soundtrack technique with realistic Brechtian staging, bridged by an element of cinematic imagery...
...health problem, the Comptroller General has cited half a dozen harmful substances detected in unusual quantities in super-sealed buildings. Among them: carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, both byproducts of smoking, gas stoves and leaky furnaces; the radioactive gas radon, which results from the natural decay of radium, an element found in soil, rocks and other building materials; and numerous particles of dust, soot and asbestos...
Even the titles of the publications bear an affinity to Dadaism. The 1910s and '20s saw the creation of Dead Serious, Dada and Cloudpump; in the 1970s and '80s we have Impulse, Slash, Damage and Fetish. The element of satiric humor remains: Dada's contents included, "Painting, Sculpture, Drawings...and Vulgar Dillentantism"; Fetish proclaims itself "The Magazine of the Material World...