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...jealous conflict over lovers, mixed identities, transferred allegiances, tragic irony, and a variety of double plots. In the musical comedy parody (after Rogers and Hammerstein) of the finale, for example, the first scene introduces the all American boy and girl who proceed in subsequent vignettes to be confronted by lesser characters who try to separate them and to stifle their career plans, but who are finally vanquished by good fortune--a reunion acene brings the lovers back together again for the happy ending. Or during the opera parody, the music might structure itself around a Puccini-type love duet...
Until now, about the closest contact many journalists have had with the recession was reporting what it did to other Americans. That vicarious experience is acquiring an edge of reality. Rising costs and shrinking revenues have begun to alter employment, format and, to a lesser extent, the quality of coverage at the nation's newspapers, magazines and broadcast stations...
...House Un-American Activities Committee which was the leading force of red-baiting and repression during the intense Cold War period in the late 1940s and early '50s. It included among its victims the "Hollywood Ten," Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson, and numerous others of greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress; many of the latter found their careers and livelihood destroyed...
...credit as a possibility. You have the reduction in rates and then you have the problem-is this a one-year tax cut or is it two years or maybe longer? For psychological reasons, you probably would do more to give it in one year. Two years with a lesser amount per year doesn't give the same immediate psychological impact...
...served by the cooperative Dean, court observers estimate that Sirica, despite his "hanging judge" reputation, will mete out nowhere near the maximum penalties to the newly convicted conspirators. Some forecast a minimum sentence of two years for Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman-double that of Dean's-and a lesser term for Mardian. No date for sentencing has been...