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FAREWELL, FAR EAST, headlined the London Evening Standard. In the Daily Express, Labor M.P. Desmond Donnelly called the government's plan "the most stark military withdrawal since the Roman legions were recalled from Britain." With a mingled sense of nostalgia and relief, Britain announced that it will gradually rid itself of the most burdensome vestige of its venerable but faded oriental empire. In a long-expected move, the government issued a Defense Ministry White Paper calling for withdrawal of all 80,000 British troops and civilians from Singapore and Malaysia by the mid-1970s...
...Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer Ray Stark. "You're young and healthy and strong." "What do you mean?" wailed Barbra. "I'm a working mother...
...speculation is on the exchanges. Acting for a group of well-heeled investors, Chicago Coin Dealer Leonard Stark has been advertising for $ 10 million worth of old-style silver certificates at a 15% premium over their face value. Banking on the fact that the Treasury will continue to redeem them for .77 oz. of silver each until next June, Stark's group stands to make a handsome profit...
...Schoenberg is in reality quite a different piece. Written slightly over a decade before the Sessions Quintet, the Trio is possibly even more severe in idiom. Where the Sessions is expansive, the Schoenberg is concentrated, pithy, intense. Contrasts are much more frequent and stark, with ferocity and elegy following in close succession in a kind of mosaic sound. Schoenberg's use of effects such as tremolo, col legno and harmonics is absolutely chilling...
...flood and ebb with the play's emotions. The costumes, which are contemporary and therefore risk drawing blatant parallels between politics Then and Now, are just suggestive enough. The make-up is masklike, an old cliche of American Greek tragedy--but the Keane eyes and chalk faces are so stark, the scars and gore so real, that this makeup has nothing to do with cliche...