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...after the Cabinet's angry pronouncements, 30 Israeli jets bombed and strafed Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, leaving at least 100 dead and more than 150 wounded -the heaviest death toll in such raids since February 1973. During attacks on refugee camps near Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon, the hamlet of Kafr Tabnit was razed almost to the ground. Israeli military spokesmen said the targets were terrorist bases, including the headquarters of the Syrian-backed Saiqa guerrillas who are thought to be responsible for a Nov. 21 raid on the Golan Heights in which three Israeli militiamen were killed. Some...
...open to my awful situation") is faster and perhaps more tongue-twisting; but the Lord Chancellor's song is the Moby Dick of patter songs, the masterpiece all the rest led up to or away from. Singing the Lord Chancellor's song is the equivalent, for a Savoyard, of Hamlet or Lear for a Shakespearean. The lyrics are a juxtaposition of complete irreverence ("the black silk with gold clocks") with a sense of heightened reality and absurdity characteristic of real nightmares...
Exile, to some degree, is Stoppard's abiding theme. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is exile through ignorance. The two mini-heroes do not understand Hamlet or Elsinore. Junipers is exile from God. No one can clearly divine his purposes or verify his existence. Travesties is exile by intent, a rebellion against social traditions and aesthetic norms. Travesties, a play-within-a-monologue, begins with the age-frazzled Carr (John Wood) reminiscing intimately about the famed Zurich trio in a way that illustrates a perennial travesty: the ravages of time on memory. What follows is part vaudeville, part nonstop...
...them have ever run anything larger than their office staffs. Hubert Humphrey was a mayor and Edmund Muskie was a Governor, but so long ago that the experience is not much more than the faded clippings in their scrapbooks. In almost every city and hamlet, Americans can see that the politicians who went to Washington now talk and act like men in a different nation from their fellow politicians who stayed back home. They see that their Governors-Lucey, Brown, Ray, Longley, Dukakis, Walker, Thomson, Evans-are true executives and make real decisions. Senators talk and shake hands...
ANGEL YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN. So reads a crude sign on the side of a furniture plant near Nuarbe, a mountainside hamlet deep in Basque country 220 miles northeast of Madrid...