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Playwright David Hare does. And in Racing Demon, which is visiting Los Angeles in a Royal National Theatreproduction, unfashionable form and seemingly distant subject matter are suddenly made vividly relevant. At the center of Richard Eyre's dark, stark yet ever bustling production stands (or rather slumps) the weary figure of the Rev. Lionel Espy (Oliver Ford Davies), a man who has lost not only religious faith but also the consolations of secular humanism with which he has been making do. To the political right and above him is his bishop (Richard Pasco), also faithless but fiercely insistent that...
...guess that's OK, too. But when the Farmer's Almanac predicts an even harsher winter this year each of the last two, you know damn well that anti-freeze and a good shovel come first, hopes of human kindness a distant second...
...winter, antifreeze and a good shovel come first, hopes of human kindness a distant second...
Perhaps in the distant future of "cyberpaper" will replace the tree based variety as a medium for printed material. But I believe that this will not happen until such cyberpaper could be endowed with the look and feel of the free-sniff. The convenience and disposability (sorry, environmentalists!) of the traditional medium for outweigh any advantages a 1990s' cyberpaper could possibly have...
Meanwhile, royal hell nearly broke loose in England, where heir-to-the-throne Charles revealed yesterday in an authorized biography that he was prodded into a loveless marriage by his emotionally distant dad, Prince Philip. The Queen's hubby -- also in Russia -- reportedly castigated Charles today for going public. The skinny on the newest scandal: this may be the final sign that Bonnie Prince Charlie carries too much baggage to be King...