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...produced at home in 1963 and in at least seven other nations -- in 18 separate theaters in West Germany. British critic Kenneth Tynan lauded the play as "absurdism with deep roots in contemporary anxieties." The perspective in that and subsequent plays often reminded critics of Samuel Beckett, the Irish-born playwright of diminution and despair whose death was announced last week. Havel considered himself a disciple of Beckett's, although his work rarely shared the older writer's paralyzing hopelessness, and Beckett returned the compliment: his 1984 one-act Catastrophe, portraying the inquisition of a dissident, was an explicit tribute...
Many of the century's most imaginative artists, from Jackson Pollock to John Cage to Sartre to Camus, poured their beings into this exploration of nothingness. None did so more persistently and penetratingly than Samuel Beckett, the Irish-born writer whose death was revealed last week in his adopted city, Paris, where for decades he lived in an apartment overlooking the exercise yard of a prison. In such plays as Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape; in novels, including Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable; in verse and essays and the script for a wordless Buster Keaton...
...beginning with Sean Connery in 1963's Dr. No. Connery played the suave Agent 007 seven times, as did Roger Moore; George Lazenby played him once. For Bond's next appearance, in The Living Daylights, which begins filming in London next month, Producer Albert Broccoli had selected the debonair, Irish-born Pierce Brosnan, star of TV's Remington Steele, after the NBC series was canceled. When Steele was renewed two months later, however, Brosnan had to bow out. So Welshman Timothy Dalton, 38, who has played Shakespeare as well as gracing such sudsy TV mini-series as Mistral's Daughter...
Throughout the trial, the Irish-born Hoare insisted that his operation had had the blessing of the South African government. "I see South Africa as the bastion of civilization in an Africa subjected to a total Communist onslaught," he said. "I foresee myself in the forefront of this fight for our very existence." Indeed, more than half of the convicted mercenaries had been members of either the South African Defense Force or the army reserve. There was also evidence that Soviet-made AK-47s and Chinese grenades and ammunition used by the mercenaries had been supplied by South African Defense...
Hoban, an Irish-born architect who practiced in Charleston, S.C. and planned the South Carolina statehouse, was the winner of the 1792 design competition for the proposed new White House. One of those he triumphed over was Thomas Jefferson, who had submitted his entry anonymously. Hoban's vision of the President's house was influenced by one of the finest examples of the English Palladian style, the famous Dublin mansion of the Duke of Leinster...