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...intimate confines of the Winthrop House JCR, organizing the human traffic with all the aplomb of a Back Bay traffic cop. A Stoppard play needs technical gadgetry: for true comic effect, Enter a Free Man should have a "Rule Britannia" clock, a few portraits of the Queen, BBC radio droning in the background, and "indoor rain." The Winthrop production manages well without them, but the loss of these elements cannot help but detract a little from our enjoyment...
...about ultimate origins and why the cosmos exists at all. Evolutionary schools of thought do not entertain such notions because they fall, by definition, outside what can be observed or tracked. If such questions are never asked, of course, they require no answer. Bertrand Russell once remarked in a BBC debate that the universe is "just there, and that's all." He was convinced that "all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system...
Everybody applauded when the BBC announced that it would bring all of Shakespeare's 37 plays to television, and clapped again when the first six were aired on PBS last year. The second round of applause was more out of duty than enthusiasm, however: with the exception of Richard II, the productions were disappointing. But with the next three plays-Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V- the series has redeemed itself and given lively hope for the future...
Mugabe also announced an ambitious set of goals for his new Cabinet. Among them: the immediate restructuring of the white-dominated civil service and local government, "complete overhaul" of the state broadcasting network (with help from the BBC), abolition of all official discrimination, resettlement of the country's estimated 850,000 displaced persons, and the reopening of schools and clinics closed during the seven-year civil...
...produces its own dramatic programs, it tries to be all things to all its constituencies. There is almost always a dash of intellectual pretension (to please the grant-bestowing foundations), a splash of uplift (to humor the corporate sponsors) and a rustle of period costumes (to attract the BBC fans). The result is often tiresome television, but occasionally there is a glorious exception. Such is the case with American Short Story. Though this returning series satisfies all the dreary institutional demands of PBS, it also provides remarkably sophisticated entertainment...