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...1930s and '40s (Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Delmore Schwartz and Dwight Macdonald), then widening to include other figures in McCarthy's busy, contentious life, including Wilson, whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert Lowell and Isaiah Berlin. And of course there is McCarthy's archenemy, Lillian Hellman. In a taped interview with Dick Cavett, first aired in 1980, McCarthy said, with only slight hyperbole, that "every word she writes is is a lie, including and and the." Hellman, the self-mythologizing Stalinist Blackglama legend, sued, but died...
...economies could be accelerated by a tremendous brain drain." The destination? The U.S.A., whose relatively relaxed immigration policies have made it a magnet for the smart and productive elements from all over the world, who in turn have helped keep the U.S. economy out in front. While governments from Berlin to Tokyo ponder the findings, Washington is spared any such handwringing - far from shrinking, its population will actually increase 70 million over the next 50 years. "There's a general consensus among demographers that the U.S. has greatly benefited from its relatively open immigration policy by attracting some...
...Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...story centers around the child of Erich Honecker (Alvin Epstein in a brief role), the secretary-general of the Communist party in East Berlin in 1989. When rioters spill into the streets during the bloodless revolution, Honecker is taken prisoner and his wife, hurrying to hide herself, leaves her child with Pamela Dalrymple (Mary Shultz), a New York socialite on tour in East Berlin who is endlessly excited by the revolution around her. Pamela quickly hires a young rioter, Dulle Griet (Mirjana Jokovic), as an au pair for the child, but the two soon find themselves on the run from...
...Most of the play's scenes happen within the context of Pamela and Dulle Griet's flight through Berlin, punctuated by the comic appearances of Herman and Gunter. The sets bounce wildly between a small theater, the columns of a museum, the streets of riot-torn Berlin, a fancy French hotel and a suburban Berlin hovel; the tone of the play changes just as wildly, such as when Dulle Griet gives a heart-felt monologue about what she imagines her "happy life" will be like, punctuated by Pamela's chirpy "Well, you're certainly the strangest girl I've ever...