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...actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving worlds with words. "Everybody likes a good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about the best storyteller there is." Thomson sees an ideal match of this man and this medium: "[H]e loved to float away on his magic carpet of a voice into adventure, romance and flat-out nonsense. Radio was his party...
...read time tables, wind watches or get out of bed.") In "Theatre of the Imagination," an engrossing radio tribute on the 50th anniversary of the Mercury ra-dio program, Richard Wilson says he can?t remember a Mercury play that opened on schedule. "Radio was the only medium that imposed a discipline that Orson would recognize," Wilson says. "And that was the clock. When it came time for ?The Mercury? to go on the air, there was no denying it... That red light would come on and say, ?On the Air.? And good or bad, right or wrong, that...
...gave way to "Hell on Ice," a docudrama of a disastrous North Pole expedition, and one of the most adroitly harrowing hours you could shiver through. Houseman, Welles and Howard Koch, who was hired as the main writer with "Hell on Ice," took full advantage of the mind-theater medium. Houseman: "We invented all sorts of ingenious and dramatic devices: diaries, letters, streams of consciousness, confessions and playbacks of recorded conversations." The result was not clutter but a narrative density that almost forced the listener to listen harder...
...archive officially opened for business June 27, and since then we've had nearly 1.5 million searches. The two "best selling" articles so far have been "Closing in on Cancer," from May of this year, and "Talking to the Dead," a story from March about dance instructor turned medium John Edward. The "best selling" article from before 1990 is "Everyone's Genealogical Mother," a story from 1987 about a scientific report that suggests that an African female living a couple of hundred thousand years ago may have been humanity's single ancestor...
...Yosef Goell writes in the Jerusalem Post: "For years supporters of the Oslo process were at pains to argue that there is no military solution to the conflict. They were partly correct. The painful truth is that in the short and medium terms there are no 'solutions,' either military or political, to such protracted conflicts. We now know there is no diplomatic and political 'solution' either...