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...level resignations have plagued the 175-member SFC staff. Michigan Democrat Howard Wolpe has gathered 188 House signatures on a bill to block the SFC from spending any more money until Congress figures out what the agency should be doing. Says Wolpe: "We have created a fiscal Frankenstein that is beyond the control of the Executive and Legislative branches...
...example, the play opens and intersperses scenes with flashing lights, organ music, and Gregorian chants a la Young Frankenstein. The audience, though puzzled, is amused, and the playmakers are faithful to Artaud's intention that theatre be the church of an inverted religion exorcising violence from man by acting it out on stage...
This type of man is particularly difficult to shake loose after one or two meetings, because simply by going out with him a woman has created her own personal Frankenstein--someone who mistakes acquaintanceship for acceptance, and politeness for affection...
...another brutal purge while some 1,000 exiled military men may yet galvanize a disgruntled populace into another coup. But no one can be sure that a change of power would restore democracy or prosperity to Suriname. As Chin A Sen says, "We don't want to replace Frankenstein with Dracula." - By Pico Iyer. Reported by William McWhirter/ Paramaribo
CONSISTENTLY, Anderson's most oblique attacks are the most potent. The creepy Dr. Millar (Graham Crowden), is a brilliant 1980s cross between Drs. Frankenstein and Strangelove. He sings the praises of modern science while placing a human brain in a blender and then proceeding to drink the elixir. He creates a patchwork-quilt human being out of the spare parts of patients, and when the head he has selected proves non-functional, he thinks nothing of lopping one off of an errant news reporter (Malcolm McDowell). Yet Anderson has by now amply made his point about the ominous potential...