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Unlike many of Fugard's other works, in which more prominent racial themes articulate the concerns of a generation of South Africans, The Road To Mecca revolves primarily around the friendship between Helen, an older Afrikaaner woman, and Elsa, a young English-speaking white South African. While there is a subtext of racial awareness in the form of Elsa's activism, this play is really the story of a special friendship between women as they discover the importance of living their lives as they will them to be, and learn how to take on the courage and responsibility...
...Elsa Wasserman, headmaster of Chelsea High School, says she is seeing a trend of progress in the new partnership...
Though life is more difficult than ever, the Vaktins still trust that the future will bring better times. For now, their children have enough to eat, their flat is cozy, and they have Elsa, an Alsatian, to keep the family smiling with her playful tricks and antics. "We can't complain," says Nadezhda. "But we hope things will get better." That is still mostly just a dream...
Such charges dismay Dr. Elsa-Grace Giardina, a cardiologist at Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center. "I would like to think that we treat everybody equally," she says. But her survey of medical literature tells her otherwise. "Women don't get thrombolytic therapy (blood-clot dissolvers like streptokinase) as often as men, they don't get coronary angiography or angioplasty, and they don't get bypass surgery as often...
LEAVE IT TO CNN, THE WORLD'S BACK fence, to make the ephemeral universal. Each weekend, CNN airs STYLE WITH ELSA KLENSCH, a brisk survey of how rich people live, dress and accessorize. The show offers runway reports of next season's couture (for the women) with more cleavage than anywhere this side of pay cable (for men), plus grooming tips and a visit to some fashion pooh-bah's aerie. Hovering above the glitz, as stately and nurturing as the Queen Mum, is the Australian-born Klensch. For Elsa, shoddy clothes and naughty tattle simply n'existent pas. "Karl...