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Mary V. Hall Playa del Rey, California...
...things about this band iswe try not to play the same set twice. We try tomix it up. When we first started playing. Weplayed in New York City, where you have to playlike five nights a week. Just to keep ourselvesinterested and to keep people coming back, we playa different set everynight. Just like tonight, wedidn't play two princes. So you come back anothernight and maybe we'll play...
Hypatia Tarleton, played by Stephanie Roth, isless impressive, at least at the start of theplay. Both her irritation and her good humor seemforced and rehearsed. Furthermore, she becomesstiff and wax-faced when she does not have to playa part in the conversation. When she is on centerstage, however, she is captivating. Her lustfulpursuit of any man who refuses to worship her andher total disregard for conventional morality makeher especially convincing as the "hard, crude,dirty minded" Hypatia...
...California power company have proposed a radical solution to the problem of powering electric cars: electrify the roads. Last week they announced a $2 million demonstration project in which electric cables will be run under 300 meters (1,000 ft.) of roadway in a west Los Angeles development called Playa Vista. Electricity from the cables would be used both to power electric cars and to recharge their batteries for travel on conventional roads...
Electrifying even a few short stretches of roadway could increase the range and effectiveness of such voltswagens dramatically. Developers in Playa Vista hope to wire the subdivision's two-mile main artery and service the neighborhood with all-electric trucks and vans. Edison's Reeves dreams of extending the network until it crisscrosses the state. Electrifying one or two lanes of a freeway, he says, might be enough to keep fleets of buses and cars charged up. People wedded to gas-gulping cars could still drive on electrified highways, but they might get dirty looks from the new breed...