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This is not the sad by-product of war but the miserable result of chronic mismanagement, atrocious policies and three years of terrible luck. Catastrophic flooding over the past two summers swept the Stalinist hermit state to the edge of famine. Now the unending drought and extraordinary heat of 1997 have brought the real thing. Cornfields--at least the ones outsiders can see--are filled with stunted, shriveled plants. Paddy fields that should be blooming are sere and brown. Land normally planted lies barren; hillsides have been stripped of anything edible...
Kaczynski, who spent 10 years as a hermit in rural Montana before federal officials nabbed him earlier this year, pleaded innocent in June to a similar indictment in Sacramento, Calif. that involved four bombings which killed a computer store owner and a timber industry lobbyist and maimed two professors...
...precocious daughter, Thomasina (Gretchen Cleevely), who is busily deducing the physics of heat without the use of mathematics and to the astonishment of her dashing tutor, Septimus (Conner Trinneer), a craggy landscaper who wishes to redesign Arcadia in a more gothic style, including a hermitage and a rented hermit, and Ezra Chater (Stephen Temperley), a second-rate poet. Oh, and Lord Byron also wanders about the premises, though, sadly, off-stage...
...same house. Two academics, Hannah Jarvis (Kandis Chappell) and Bernard Nightingale (Terence Caza), are busy combing through the library looking for evidence about why Byron left England in such a god-awful hurry, how the tutor Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...
STEPHEN KING, another hermit of literature, has long been enamored of the RAMONES. The group's music crops up regularly in the movie versions of his books; he has also been known to frequent Ramones' concerts. But King makes his own music: he plays lead guitar for the all-writer band the Rock Bottom Remainders. The group covers a litany of rock favorites, dubbed "hard-listening music" by band member (and humor columnist) Dave Barry. To the tune of These Boots Are Made for Walking, fellow Remainder (and novelist) Amy Tan dons a tight leather jumpsuit and whips other band...