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DIED. GORDON BENEKE, 86, sax player nicknamed "Tex" who sang Chattanooga Choo Choo with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and became bandleader after Miller's plane disappeared in World War II; in Costa Mesa, Calif...
Critics of such new rules, however, argue that they will only increase irresponsibility. Laurie Larson of Project Cuddle, a counseling service for expecting mothers in Costa Mesa, Calif., says the amnesty laws may encourage girls to abandon their babies. For Gwenn Square, the debate is personal. She has never moved far from the ditch in Houston where her mother abandoned her 40 years ago, hoping she might someday look for her. "I suffered all these years with no identity," she says. "I'm an offspring of nobody." The new laws and programs, she says, condone a crime and excuse...
...Hollow Lands, having its premiere at the South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, Calif., is not your garden-variety revisionist history. Bleak and Brechtian in style, it has no overt political message; no easy, retroactive moralizing about the sins of our ancestors. Achieving the nation's "Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster...