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...play and is determined to make the audience see it too. If that means flinging in poetry from Byron, music from Beethoven or borrowings from the past 20 years of avant-garde theater, so be it. His stage effects are frequently apt and memorable. When Dantes is thrown into a dungeon, he and a grizzled fellow prisoner (David Warrilow) wail about their plight as their bodies sink beneath the stage. Soon only their heads are visible, lighted starkly from below, in a striking, Beckett-like image of existential despair...
...billiard table with electric wires attached to his mouth and toes. Former President Alejandro Lanusse told of how he had once reproached a police officer for failing to report the discovery of a body. "Don't forget, General," the man had responded, "more than 8,000 bodies have been thrown in the river...
...been dealt with by the administration, the students and the committee well in advance of the actual protests. As it is now, the administration should be persuaded to wait until the fall before any action is taken. Since the proper mechanisms are not in place, they should not be thrown together hastily. The protesters have a right to expeditious treatment, but they have even more of a right to due process M. Timur Friedman
Many of those being expelled had been thrown out in 1983 but had slipped back into the country by bribing border guards or crossing over at remote, unguarded spots. Some even returned by stowing away on ships. More returnees can almost certainly be expected following the latest expulsion. "I will have to come back," explained Alhaji Idrissa as he waited to make the crossing into his native Niger. "Nigeria is the only place where I can survive...
...left before the end of the reception to go to my French class, but I returned at 2:15 to watch as the police pushed their was through the crowd. Some protesters were badly hurt, apparently people were violently struck and thrown aside. Some sort of force was certainly, needed for Mr. Hoppenstein to escape, but more police should have been involved and there was no need for great violence. Another question is whether he should have left at all knowing that force would have to be used...