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...They write "important" plays about political issues or world-famous physicists or 19th century Russian philosophers. Ayckbourn's realm is smaller and more familiar - the domestic and romantic predicaments of modern, middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human drama behind these tidy surfaces: the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy. A woman's spoofy fantasies of a perfect domestic life turn into the chilling symptoms...
...that, no problem." A few weeks ago, though, Peralta noticed a change in the way his clients' feet moved. Customers began to say, "they can't talk right now, they have their mind on something else, or they just work on their BlackBerry," Peralta says. "It can be a pain for me, because when people are stressed or moody they tend to fidget and I have to grab their ankle to keep their foot still." In the days leading up to the Sept. 15 nosedive, and since, the clients still talking to him have all been asking the same question...
...Does Not Fit All As a 72-year-old working female, I am offended by Mike Murphy's caricature of Obama supporters [Sept. 1]. I bought a Prius because I have to drive 65 miles each way to work because jobs are scarce. I drink syrah to dull the pain of the damage done by eight years of Bush and friends. Joni Woolf, Ellaville...
...Does Not Fit All As a 72-year-old working female, I am offended by Mike Murphy's caricature of Obama supporters [Sept. 1]. I bought a Prius because I have to drive 65 miles each way to work because jobs are scarce. I drink Syrah to dull the pain of the damage done by eight years of Bush and friends. Joni Woolf, ELLAVILLE...
...that a political system that many remember only for the pain and trauma it inflicted is a source of nostalgia for others? Schroeder is sure that parents and teachers are to blame. "The older people are aware of what the GDR really was like, but they don't say it," he says. "People generally tend to have a blurred vision of their own past lives. And the public and schools have failed to act as a counterbalance...