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...DIM EARTH: Pollution and clouds turn down the lights...
...What kind of monarchy is this?" the returned Stuart (Colin Friels) asks his court, breeches round his ankles, having just had his way with his mistress Devonshire (Marta Dusseldorp). It's the Restoration, silly. And Barker trots out his defeated Puritans, dim-witted landowners and disgruntled cavaliers as lambs to be slaughtered by his withering wit: Milton on amphetamines (the poet, too, gets his comeuppance). It's an actor's feast, of course, with 36 roles shared among 11 players in this production, although the best one is saved for Davis, who co-directs with Benjamin Winspear...
...eyeglasses on the most unsuspecting spectators. “Fusilli the Enforcer,” Don Carbonara’s bodyguard, serenades us with “Amore” and other North End favorites on his accordion. Then, in the midst of enjoying our cheese ravioli, the lights dim and the star-crossed lovers Toni Marinara and Ditalina Carbonara enter. The couple dances palmer-kiss style until, gasp! Toni mysteriously collapses. We are informed that Toni has kicked the bucket—with some help...
...face of brutal mutilations of American civilians in the Sunni triangle and the unexpected success of insurgencies in the South last week, America’s nation-building effort has stalled. And the prospect of Iraq becoming a self-sufficient and stable society in the near future is dim...
...China's deployment of missiles across the Taiwanese Strait. He has also said that if he wins, he will revise Taiwan's constitution, a step that Beijing fears could move Taiwan closer to formal independence. That is why Washington, seeking to cultivate relations with China, has taken a dim view of Chen's initiatives. President Bush warned him in December not to "make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," implying that he should reconsider the referendum. Chen has ignored him. But China may have its own problems in responding to Chen. Any revisions of the Taiwanese constitution would probably...