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...character with great ease. Alternately imperious and juvenile, she resembles nothing so much as a rebellious teenager encountering a midlife crisis. Next to these harpies, the two supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue for all its worth, making his character Pato an earnest, lovable womanizer. Matthew Ellis as Pato's brother Ray is less successful. Aside from a few outpourings of the perennially amusing Irish swear word "feck!", his dialect and his mannerisms fail to convey the sense of a bored and insolent Irish...
...woman stuck in a dismal job and still living with her mother in a tiny countryside shanty. Mag Folan is a crotchety 70 year old with a urinary infection and a nasty habit of emptying her bedpan in the dish sink. Maureen is offered a route of escape when Pato Dooley, a man of roughly the same age as Maureen, returns from London to visit his home in Leenane and invites Maureen to start a new life with him in America. With some foreshadowing and a few facile twists of plot, the play ends on an inevitably tragic note...
...rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from France, or Irish plum cake...
Died. Jan Patoĉka, 69, senior spokesman for the Czechoslovak Charter 77 group of more than 600 intellectuals, which calls on the Prague government to protect the human rights of its citizens; of a brain hemorrhage; in Prague. A former professor of philosophy, Patoĉka was hospitalized for exhaustion earlier this month after prolonged questioning over a two-day period at the Interior Ministry...
...defeat for the Communists. Eanes, the tough, austere army chief of staff who put down a leftist military uprising last November, won 61.5% of the vote, trouncing far-left candidate Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (16.5%), seriously ailing Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield his new authority forcefully...