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Raffi now refuses to play for children. He calls himself an eco-troubadour. Sitting on the terrace of his modest Vancouver apartment, he sighs over the resentment his act of conscience has created. "I know some parents feel I've abandoned their children. But I've come to realize that unless I do my utmost to stop the destruction of the earth, there'll be no world for those young people to grow...
Period pieces have never been a TV favorite. True, the western was once a network staple (and the genre has made a modest comeback recently, with such shows as Paradise and The Young Riders), and a small handful of hit series have been set in the past. But these shows were mainly interested in using the past for its symbolic or mythic value. The Minnesota frontier of Little House on the Prairie and the Depression-era South of The Waltons were essentially the same locale: an all-American Everyplace, where ethical issues and family dramas could be worked out against...
...Though modest about his work, the healer takes pleasure in recounting one triumphant moment of vindication. Last year he was approached by nuns from a Catholic mission hospital who asked him to help an extremely sick man whose chest was being eaten away by a subcutaneous amoebic infection that had not responded to drugs. Using a method learned from his father, N'donazi applied washed and crushed soldier termites to the open wounds. The patient, Thomas Service, made a remarkable recovery. In gratitude, he now appears at the clinic every Sunday bearing a gift for N'donazi. When a visitor...
...federal deficits that helped fuel the creation of 22 million new jobs in the 1980s have made fresh tax cuts or spending programs politically and economically anathema. Moreover, the Federal Reserve Board has resisted spurring job growth by sharply dropping interest costs, lest the tactic speed up a relatively modest 3% inflation rate...
...Alley Theater from Sept. 4 through 18. The current show is a new version of the Chaplin-Thierree Le Cirque Imaginaire, which barnstormed Europe and the U.S. for more than a decade. Thierree, the show's resident jester and prestidigitator, and Chaplin, who does stunning acrobatics and uses modest props to transform herself into a virtual bestiary, credit audience reactions with shaping Le Cirque's evolution. Says Chaplin: "The circus, or vaudeville, must listen to the audience and try to meet its wishes or, even better, its dreams...