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...viewed. It is unlikely, for example, that a passenger in a helicopter could perceive that a fence, far below, was strung at the top with concertina wire. Palmer also has a habit of interrupting characters' reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment that is also a journey through the underworld and a harrowing of hell...
...clouds of crisis. John Kennedy, tired but quietly jubilant, stood in the bright October sun on the porch outside the Oval Office where he and his aides had fashioned a solution during 13 days of nail-biting cerebration. Kennedy thrust his hands deep into his coat pockets, a familiar tic that signaled he was back in high fettle. He ducked his head with the small self-conscious smile of the winner he always wanted to be, muttered something about not messing up the weekend entirely, and strode off to his helicopter for a few hours at his Virginia estate. That...
...financial topic has been the subject of more consternation during the past three years than interest rates. And no wonder. The cost of borrowing money, which affects virtually every area of the economy, has been at the highest level since the Civil War. Last week's fran tic activity on Wall Street showed that professional investors believe that falling interest rates may drop even further. There is much less agreement, however, about their longer-range course...
...although Harvard battled back from a 3-1 deficit to tic the be the game at three in the bottom of the sixth and then went ahead with two more uns in the seventh, the Crimson needed a Paul Scheper to Brad Bauer to Vinnie Martell game ending out at the plate before the Huskies were sent packing their hall bags...
...Sure, there are some problems. A few scenes too many end with a shouted "Oh, go away!" or a slamming door. The character of Natalie seems nowhere near as complex as Johnny's so that the story she narrates occasionally seems to escape her comprehension. The flashback monologues that tic the play together are its weakest stretches, whether because of the lines--which tend to spell out undertones that should be shown--or Thomas' occasionally uninspired reading of them. But such flaws are unimportant alongside a plot which, astonishingly, justifies not only the play's occasional lapses but its considerable...