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...where potential buyers can test-drive the latest models. At the Peterborough, N.H., town library, cardholders check out and take home low-cost computers just as they would a mystery or gothic romance. "It's a matter of survival," says Joan Zaleski, director of the Connetquot Public Library in Bohemia, N.Y. "You have to be an up-to-date, exciting place or you'll go under...
According to the synopsis, the play spans 16 years and concerns the King of Sicilia, Leontes, whose blind jealousy about his wife Hermione's relationship with his friend the King of Bohemia--Polixenes--leads to the supposed death of his wife, the abandonment of his newly born daughter in the countryside, the death of his young son, and ultimately his isolation in his lonely kingdom. The actual play is filled with mystical presences, such as Leontes most trusted advisor Camillo--who casts spells and forecasts various occurrences--and Paulina, the queen's confidante, who seems to have some special relationship...
...Meanwhile, militant Irish congregate in London to plot bombings and other extralegal redresses. A delegation of three calls on Ross; people in his circle begin wondering where the young M.P.'s loyalties lie. Symons also conducts a guided tour of London's fin de siècle bohemia, where the names conjured with include Whistler, Turner and Beardsley. Oscar Wilde drops in on a party and charms everyone he greets...
...small set of preoccupations: the burden of the past and the limits of the healing power of laughter. Time is measured back and forth from the year 1968, when the growing freedom of the Czech people, the fabled Prague Spring, was crushed by the Soviets: "Russian tanks invaded Bohemia." Recent history was revised downward, and those who had been prominent in pushing reforms (including Kundera) found themselves officially erased into nonpersons. Observes one character: "The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past...
DIED. Peggy Guggenheim, 81, American-born patroness of 20th century art; following a stroke; in Camposampiero, Italy. Seven years after losing her father on the Titanic in 1912, Peggy came into her share of the Guggenheim copper fortune and departed for the bohemia of Paris and London. She flamboyantly dallied with writers and artists: two became her husbands (including Painter Max Ernst), many her lovers (including Playwright Samuel Beckett). Bored and between husbands in 1938, she began to collect art, later and anonymously sponsor young artists, adopting the motto "Buy a painting a day." When the Louvre declared...