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...impeachment process by every possible means. Nixon's lawyers last week maneuvered in court to slow the case and kept stonewalling against the House Judiciary Committee's request for more evidence, to which it is entitled under the Constitution. The committee's impeachment timetable continued to slip badly...
...last year, finishing up with the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the New York Drama Critics' Award, and the Tony. Unfortunately, the cast of the touring company playing now in Boston can't do justice to the brilliant tragi-comedy of Miller's play. The tense moments of the play slip by with long pauses that are more tedious than suspenseful and the intensity of the actors' emotional outbursts is rarely in keeping with the dramatic mood that has been created on the stage. Working together, the five actors fail to create that subtly woven web of tension and humor, love...
...three exhibiting potters, members of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio, exhibit wide variety in their glazing techniques. David Pribnow characteristically uses matte glazes of different colored slips (liquid clays), which he paints on meticulously in geometrical patterns. Along with the slip method he uses salt glazing, throwing salt into the kiln at a critical moment, producing glassy, speckled surfaces. The shapes are globular and difficult to throw; the decorations rigidly geometrical. The result is the antithesis of accident--he inspires admiration, not empathy...
...only professional potter in the show. His work, thrown during his leave of absence from Harvard this past year and a half, shows the widest range in the group, and contains the sole constructed piece (a rectangular slab, darkly glazed). His techniques include glossy enamelware and spartan slip-decorated stoneware; gigantic perfectly thrown jugs and tiny one-flower vases. The diversity of his work verges on disunity, and as with Allon's work, one senses the exploratory exercises of the craftsman rather than the developed and selective expression of the artist...
This melodramatic incident was not conjured up by a TV scriptwriter or a science-fiction novelist. It actually occurred in Orlando, Fla., a few years ago. Only competent police work and a slip-up by the "bomber" revealed that he was in fact a 14-year-old high school honors student in science who was bent on nothing more than a spectacular hoax. What made the mischief so chilling was that nuclear blackmail by terrorist or criminal organizations is far from inconceivable. It is quite possible that a simple but devastating atomic weapon could now be made...