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...something else, something completely different, if possible. But no, Los Angeles television just kept pouring raw footage from the remote units onto the screen. It was roughly the equivalent of dumping raw sewage into Santa Monica Bay. In effect, intelligent life-forms -- those organisms struggling to make sense of tragic chaos -- found the oxygen supply to their brains...
...After peace is restored," Bush said, "we must then turn again to the underlying causes of such tragic events." Given the G.O.P.'S ideology and its sources of political support, it is unrealistic to expect the President to direct a mass transfer of resources toward the economic inequality that plagues America's minorities. But there is a good deal else that can be done, and Bush should begin listening to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the only Administration player who has thought seriously about urban problems. Kemp's proposals to turn over public-housing units to tenants...
Julie Harris enters that world with ease as Lettice Duffet. Harris, five-time Tony Award winner, gives a majestic yet startlingly genuine performance. She glides easily from tragic heights--shocked when she is betrayed by her best friend--to foolish silliness--teaching a barrister how to pretend to be a British drummerboy. She is, at all times, "a lady of inspirations...
...project demonstrates that date rape is sometimes simply the result of tragic misunderstanding. The opening number of Calling It Rape includes simultaneous monologues by a man and a woman, two versions of the same evening, the same series of events, with altogether different consequences for each of them...
...when he threatens them; they sense that this "crazy Hebe" would just as soon die as give them a dime. History is not so easily intimidated. When World War II begins, his adolescent son Joey (Tony Gillan), inflamed by news of the death camps, enlists in the Navy with tragic results. The surviving son, Charlie (Tony Shalhoub), becomes a prosperous novelist but fails at everything else, from marriage to filial affection. Zaretsky's very life is a reproach: the "dying man with a dead language and no place to go" becomes a millionaire and survives to age 93. Eddie, ever...