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...title, Savage/Love, suggests the play's dualism; two words, joined and separated by the slash, are flip sides of the same coin. The two actors embody this ambiguity. They slip back and forth between unsynchronized attempts to provoke each other and cooing reconciliation, between absorption in their parts and ironic detachment. In a scene/verse called Acting, they walk arm in arm, dressed in curtains, with mock solemnity, down an imaginary aisle. "Now we are acting the partners in love," says...
...yesterday, the Democrats set to work at making political capital out of the slip...
...labor costs are rising by a modest 5½% a year. Britain, said Tory Leader Cecil Parkinson, was "a very safe place to keep your money secure." If necessary, the Prime Minister will make the message clearer. After saving the Falklands, Thatcher hardly seemed likely to let the pound slip out of control...
...ceilings, which seems undignified for Senators. Warnecke's solution: 16-ft. ceilings for the senatorial offices, with the adjoining staff space built on two levels, each with 8½-ft. ceilings. One advantage of the older buildings that Warnecke omitted: private office doors allowing Senators to slip in and out unseen...
...hard. The Crimson's now stands at 26, currently the longest in Division I swimming. Even faced with the prospects of Reading Period and facing a letdown against one of the weaker squads in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL), the aquamen weren't about to let that distinction slip away...