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...disputed zone which both Turkish and Greek Cypriots now claim. In Famagusta, four major hotels along the town's "Golden Mile" of hostelries-the Venus Beach, Blue Sea, Salaminia Tower and Aspelia -were nearly destroyed. The Ledra Palace in Nicosia, acknowledged queen of Cypriot hotels, is a shell-pocked shambles. A construction program under which 35 additional hotels were to be built throughout the island has been suspended indefinitely...
...have made the point about Israel's plastic culture after the Six-Day War much more tellingly. The obligatory Bedouin shots (you can almost hear the travelogue voice-over "And here these strange people of the desert...") had some nice colors too. And the last long sequence of a shell-shocked Israeli soldier re-enacting his trauma was a powerful statement of the human cost...
...examination of Jewish suffering is occasioned by the highest motives, it is a disaster as a political act. Whether she means for this to happen is irrelevant. She does not understand the situation well enough to know that the point at which she ends, the suffering of the shell-shocked Israeli soldier, is precisely the point at which she should have begun. The task is not to describe how this soldier suffers--rather it is to determine why. In failing to perceive this, she has not just failed her audience, but has dealt a serious blow to her own political...
...Harvard Pops Orchestra is playing a free concert Sunday at the Hatch Shell in the Charles River Esplanade. They aren't the Boston Symphony, but the Harvard Pops are still nothing to sneeze at--unless you have hay fever and are allergic to outdoors concerts--and are worth a look...
...United States Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus will perform at the Hatch Memorial Shell, Charles River Esplanade, on Tuesday at 8 p.m. The male chorus is reported to be exceptional, and if it is a clear night, Boston is dazzling from across the river...