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...theater parlance, noises off refers to commotion in the wings. In Frayn's play, the noises off are the backstage yelps and battle cries of the actors, who are entangled in a sex farce of their own. Frayn's most novel stroke is to set his second act behind the scenes at a performance of Nothing On. While the players on the far side of the scenery invisibly sing out their lines, those on the near side conduct a frenzied pantomime with a wine bottle, a cactus plant, bouquets of flowers, a fireman's ax, shoelaces tied...
Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, 54, launched the new era by ceremoniously pouring a can of beer into the Nile. Five million dollars' worth of liquor followed, as thousands watched from the riverbank, chanting, "Wise decision, Gaafar." Thus did Sudan pass under Islamic law this fall. At a stroke, alcohol was banned, and the harsh strictures of the Sharia eliminated the last vestiges of Western-style criminal justice. Thenceforth Muslim adulterers would be stoned, murderers beheaded and boozers flogged (40 lashes for Muslims, 30 for disorderly non-Muslims). The most graphic evidence of the change to date came two weeks...
...reaction of U.S. educators to this flurry of concern has been largely one of dismay. They accuse the Administration of overstating the problem. "The President is painting schools with a broad stroke, conjuring up what they were ten years ago," says Mary Futrell, president of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association. "The schools are no longer drug dens and battlegrounds...
...Even a primary win would not have attracted more publicity, conceded Sergio Bendixen, Alan Cranston's campaign manager. Maxine Isaacs, Mondale's press secretary, said of the former Vice President's staff, "If we were younger and less experienced, we'd be depressed." With one stroke, Jackson, by successfully gaining the release of Navy Flyer Robert Goodman, gave his campaign a credibility that it had sorely lacked. Said Andrew Young, Atlanta's black mayor: "When Jesse says something visionary now, people won't take it as ridiculous...
...stroke of midnight, at his vacation home in Florida, American Telephone & Telegraph Chairman Charles Brown and his wife Ann Lee raised glasses. Said Brown: 'To the men and women of the Bell System." A thousand miles away, at a party near New York City, a longtime Bell manager lamented, "The world's best phone system is being broken up. What's there to be cheerful about...