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...show is also excellent technically, as one would expect from a Mainstage production. Effective use is made of eerie lights, smoke, gauzy curtains, vivid sets, and sound effects. The sets and costumes usually don't match Garcia Lorca's explicit instructions, though and their symbolic meanings are lost...

Author: By Gary L. Susmam, | Title: Blood Wedding | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...official statement to Harvard alumniin the overseers voter handbook, Gore's positionis less explicit...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Overseer Candidate Gore Launches Presidential Bid | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...other right-wing activists who argued that a dose of "appropriate fear" might be necessary. "Irresponsible sexual behavior" is the "main cause of the spread of AIDS," reads one memo from the Department of Education to HHS. The memo goes on to say that an earlier and more explicit HHS draft on AIDS education "resembles a dog-care manual. Not guidance for people." In a statement of principle accompanying the plan's release last week, Bennett wrote, "Young people must be told that the best way to avoid AIDS is to refrain from sexual activity until as adults they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Transfusion of Fear | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

That, in essence, is the plot of The Thanatos Syndrome, but Percy has done more here than simply repeat himself. The theme may be familiar, but the variations decidedly are not. For one thing, this novel embodies Percy's most detailed, explicit attack on contemporary materialism and science. For another, the philosophical warfare has been artfully disguised as a thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Implications Of Apocalypse: THE THANATOS SYNDROME | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Would he now admit that the arms sales, whatever the original motive, were a mistake? "I would not go down that same road again," said Reagan, the first time he had made such an explicit statement. But he quickly added that "I thought ((the initiative)) was right in the beginning" and even insisted once again that the arms deals might have succeeded in getting more hostages released if the arms-sales story had not "leaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan: Well, He Survived | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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