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...into action, it takes quite a while to involve the audience with the characters. Then, just when it has developed the Phantom as a pathetic blend of noble genius and physical freak, it turns him into an almost random murderer. In an ideal entertainment, there must be someone to root for. But as Alice noted of a wonderland no more demented or enchanted than the Phantom's opera house, they are all very unpleasant people here...
...first awful display that the Angels put on in Fenway Park, foreshadowing their final two staggers in Boston, took California Pitcher Don Sutton, 41, back to his root-beer days. "The last time I saw a game like this," he said wistfully, "the coach wouldn't take us to the Tastee-Freez." Ground balls were lost in the sun, popups in the shadows, but Grich looked the most misplaced of all, blaming Third Base Coach Moose Stubing too savagely for botching a signal. Grich remains spry enough at 37 to lash game-winning hits, but he had grown...
...these crude terms. But it is hard to deny that New Yorkers have a fascination with the supernatural. How else can one explain the press' fixation on the coincidence that Ms. Steel visited the same bar as Ms. Levin. Perhaps that lurid den of iniquity was the root of the problem...
...will have to start worrying about hijackings and terrorist attacks." The fundamental fact of the Middle East today is that those who engage in terror do not want peace, and those who want peace are not engaged in terror. Those who make the slightest move to eliminate the vaunted root cause of terror -- i.e., those who genuinely seek a compromise solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem -- get shot. The latest victim is the mayor of Nablus, whose crime was to take over responsibility for fixing potholes. That was too much accommodation with the Zionist entity, as the rejectionists like...
...exactly the kind of solution Americans like to dream about, a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, was also murdered, shot dead in Portugal in 1983. Not too many Palestinians have since risen to take up his cause. It is truer to say that terrorism is a root cause of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict than vice versa...