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...same time, the masculine grip on the House of Commons has finally been broken. What a parliamentary diarist once called "this delicious male, tawny place" will echo to the tones of 150 women, including a 100-strong Labour contingent. Some of the most spectacular Tory defeats were the work of women candidates, and women will make up more than a quarter of the new government. Blair, who is married to one of the most successful young lawyers in Britain, has no problems about working with women. One of his closest confidantes is his personal secretary, Anji Hunter...
...quite escape the feeling that no one involved in Fathers? Day (which is yet another Americanized version of a French farce) is quite working to full capacity. As long as they?re borrowing from offshore sources, why not this old, curiously appropriate title: Memoirs of Underdevelopment." BOOKS . . . ECHO HOUSE: Ward Just's new novel (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25) returns to his familiar territory of the nation's capitol in a story that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist...
...head to be led up the world's highest peak. "With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said New Zealander Rob Hall, a respected climber who headed Adventure Consultants, the best-known of the guiding outfits. Hall added, in a comment that was to echo mournfully, "The trick is to get back down alive...
...causes and search for ways to prevent violence from happening in the first place. A speaker from a battered women's shelter told us on Wednesday that she would love to put herself out of a job by ending the need for services to help abused women. We echo her sentiments; we hope that people will leave Take Back the Night week with a desire to rid our society of violence against women and ideas about where to begin. It is our goal, too, that Take Back the Night become unnecessary...
...echo-chamber effect which sometimes cuts in during a monologue becomes tedious very fast, and there are also a couple of thematic loose ends. For example, an early Lewis Carroll reference is not picked up again, and one may also wonder why Phebe seems to have turned into a refugee from Rent. But such glitches can easily enough be corrected by the players. If there are a few elements of Zayas's vision that don't strike a chord in the viewer, they're easily made up for by the overpowering richness of that vision as a whole...