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...course, for everybody. While Synanon has moved in new, provocative directions, its membership has dropped from a peak of 1,800 in 1972 to 1,183 today. Among those to leave was Dederich's brother William, who did not want to break up his marriage of 37 years. Those who stay at Synanon seem to be as hooked on the place as any junkie on his drugs. "They want somebody to tell them what to do," says Sydney Fischer, who left the commune in 1976 after living there for four years. "It's like having a big daddy...
...clear, trout-filled stream just north of the town. There, as one official notes, residents will be able to hear "the wind of the willow, the babble of Deception Creek." Most inspiring of all, on a clear day they will be able to look northwest and see McKinley -the peak that native Alaskans have always called Denali ("The Great One"). Comments City Planner Alan Rivkin of Washington, D.C., a consultant to the commission: "This new capital will be an embodiment of what is best in the state of Alaska...
...play's serious intention. As if taking the cue from Donald Soule's unbalanced set design, which places the richly-colored tavern hearth flush against the dry burlap of symmetrical castle towers, the comic scenes, appearing in the midst of the serious, only seem to mock them. The peak of this production is reached when Falstaff, balancing his weight on a chair balanced on a table top, wearing a pillow on his head as crown, chastises Hal in mimicry of his father, the king. Even at the climax of the play's final battle scene-in which Hotspur...
Your article on "The New Morality" [Nov. 21] really hit an alltime conversation peak in my sociology class. Though it might be true that more people are sleeping together for love, there is still a strong belief in having sex for the fun of it. Most people in my class concluded that it wouldn't be so bad to have a mistress or to be one. Just be sure to get the fringe benefits without any strings attached...
Free wine flowed at intermission, though, and a more relaxed cast returned with a very funny tongue-in-cheek parody, "Raining in My Heart," from Dames at Sea. The second half of the show is much looser and livelier and the peak of the evening is "Tap Your Troubles Away," which really might convince you to exuberantly thrash your woes with a pair of tap shoes...