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...play, though plagued with various and sundry other difficulties--poor lighting and makeup, intrusive set design, tacky costuming--fails primarily in this interpretive aspect. The Leverett House production, furthermore, provides its own unsolicited deathblow -- in setting the already outdated play in present-day upstate New York. The set, dialogue and actors prove inadequate with respect to this ambitious innovation, and are eventually unable to carry the additional burden...
...valleys, some as wide as those of the Nile. Though a few experts speculate that the ancient and modern water systems were once connected, there is no supporting evidence. In fact, says McCauley, "the trending of the [ancient] rivers is to the south and west, the opposite of the present-day movement. It is possible they all joined up to one large basin of interior drainage as large as the Caspian...
...back from political adversity, the Tuscan Pony. Despite his antiCommunist, anti-abortion stands, he gained a reputation as a pragmatist, forming the country's first left-of-center coalition with the Socialists in 1962. His ability to compromise was quickly put to use last week to mollify the present-day Socialists under Bettino Craxi...
...Judea and Samaria, and turned to the prophets of old to justify what he felt was Israel's historical claim to the territory. He espoused the sanctity of "Eretz Yisrael," a term meaning "land of Israel" and referring to the region that in biblical times would have encompassed present-day Israel and the West Bank...
...this topic, he has reason to be. Many media experts, including colleague Rather, worry that a Cronkite--no Redford even in his younger days--would never be given a chance by today's news directors. Viewers didn't turn off Cronkite because he wasn't attractive enough, yet many present-day news directors seem oddly convinced that they would today. It's a mystery why they continue to ignore the lessons of the past and to ascribe to viewers such superficial values. Who says news-watchers are looking for "beautiful people" as anchormen...