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...Rockies, perhaps too rosily, are increasingly being regarded as the new American heartland. They hold out a promise not just of scenery and jobs but also, most important, of old, back-country values and certainties -- like home, hearth and family -- that have seemingly gone astray in many urban centers. California never offered those. California offered liberation and excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho...
Most American playwrights seem obsessed with the hearth and its heartaches, but Lee Blessing takes on big political questions, finding the human dimension without stinting the abstraction. Since his 1987 breakthrough work, A Walk in the Woods, about nuclear arms control, he has tackled Beirut hostage taking (Two Rooms), the Gulf War (Fortinbras), Central American insurrection (Lake Street Extension), racism in sport (Cobb), crime and the media (Down the Road) and now AIDS. His appetite for moral complexity has never been more challenged, and his capacity to avoid settling for mere indignation has never been more welcome, than in Patient...
...BOTTOM LINE: This grand Mexican fable shows that the way to a man's heart is through a woman's hearth...
...Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love her and poison those who would enslave...
...public- confessional scenes that lofted him through so many rough spots during the campaign. If he could admit to trying marijuana and having marital problems, why not admit that the nanny litmus test is a mistake? He could bring on the cameras, sit in front of a glowing hearth in the White House family quarters and pensively bite his lower lip. "As working parents," one can imagine him saying, "Hillary and I understand the anguish of searching for quality day care for children." He could insert some touching anecdote about the time Hillary and he were on the road, Chelsea...