Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Howard Brenton, has become the hottest ticket in London. He wrote potent screenplays for two current films, Wetherby and Plenty, the latter an adaptation of his 1983 Broadway hit about postwar British decline as reflected in the tormented life of one politically involved woman. Now Hare's A Map of the World, being given its U.S. premiere at the off-Broadway Public Theater, has emerged as the most stimulating new play of the season...
...Map epitomizes the Theater of Ideas: its centerpiece is a literal debate about what duties affluent nations owe to the impoverished masses of the Third World. The contestants are an idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting...
...enters wielding pen like bludgeon or scalpel, a bull in a cheese shop, breaking all the codes. He leaves the Reader with a picture of Mr. Palomar, balancing notebook on knee, pen on paper, scribbling down names, sizes, colors, mold formations, as if his frantic doodling could create another map of the stars, a gastronomy of everyday life. Mr. Palomar does take on a persona, and at the same time becomes a recognizable character, when he sonic booms his way out of his secret life back into social reality, disoriented, holding in his head fragments of his wife's shopping...
...space and equipment, he can now assign individual research projects to 1,200 introductory-psych students a year. History Professor Eric Brose discovered that by displaying on a Mac the political boundaries and disarmament terms established by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, he was able to skip his usual map lecture and concentrate on the underlying causes of World War II. "I tell them to do the exercises at home," he says. "And when we come to class we discuss what might have been, or whether the French point of view was more realistic than the American. It is very...
...loyalists are opposed to a coalition with centrist groups, even if the Socialists take a drubbing in next year's elections and want to leave the door open for a revival of the old alliance with the Communists. "I do not erase the Communist Party from the French political map," said Party Secretary Lionel Jospin, 48, who leads the Mitterrandistes...