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...fact, if Aunt Dan had been dismissed, as were most of his previous efforts, he might have abandoned the theater altogether. "I just don't think I can write a better play than this one," he says. But how could such a pleasant person write a drama that is at once so unpleasant and annoying, yet so provocative that half of New York seems to be waiting to get into the Public Theater? The answer is that, like many moralists with a pen, Shawn has set off a verbal time bomb, mostly in a series of monologues in which...
Lemon (Kathryn Pogson) is a neurotic young Englishwoman who sits in her London flat reading about the Nazis, whom she admires, and musing over her childhood, which was dominated by Aunt Dan (Linda Hunt), a slightly sinister friend of her parents. Aunt Dan, it turns out, is crazy, but crazy in the way some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised...
France and Britain have lodged diplomatic protests with Pretoria criticizing the new curbs on press freedom. So have most major news organizations. CBS News Anchorman Dan Rather, who is chairman of the freedom of information committee of the Television and Radio Working Press Assoc., urged Botha to rescind...
...American society. "So many people on either side of the debate are the personification of the ideas being challenged," says David Douglas, a graduate last spring. "It's more than an intellectual debate for them. It's a critique of their life's work." Third-Year Law Student Dan Gordon puts it more dryly: "It's hard to distinguish the personal animosities from the intellectual arguments...
...proper spin on what took place in the first encounter between their two leaders--just as these officials spent the previous week trying to manipulate the expectations. After the 3,000 journalists who converged on Geneva file their final reports, after the last evening broadcasts by Dan Rather and Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw are transmitted from specially built new ground stations, it will be possible once again to get a hotel room and a table in a restaurant--and easier than ever to get an outside phone line in a city where 1,250 miles of new cables were...