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...skillful and professional, he has wildly miscast some roles. Several of his players are too old for their parts; some are not attractive enough to justify the admiration the play says they capture. The production, with one intermission, runs more than four grueling hours. It would be pleasant to report that Sellars' experiment in cultural détente is a brilliant failure. But that would be only half true...
...residents on edge two years ago as British troops advanced across the barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...
...American author in search of a subject, is the show's male protagonist. Paris and Venice fail to inspire him so he makes his way to Berlin, a city rich with parties and nightlife. There, he is naively introduced to the subculture of the Kit Kat Klub by a pleasant-seeming young German smuggler, Ernst Ludwig (David Kirach). Calmly watching the stageshow. Cliff is masterfully seduced by its star-performer Sally Bowles (Belle Linda Halpern). And while the first act only hints at the rising Nazi power, focusing on Cliff and Sally's ensuing love affair, the second reveals...
...thing worse than unsuccessful efforts in the Middle East, Central America or anywhere might be to do nothing at all, a pleasant prospect in the short run but a course that often invites the ultimate disaster...
First chickens, then goats, then children The report from Zimbabwe's Bishops' Conference, an organization of Roman Catholic churchmen, was not pleasant reading for Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. It accused the Zimbabwe army of waging a campaign of terror in parts of Matabeleland province, into which government troops had been sent in January to flush out antigovernment rebels. The bishops charged that physical brutality was commonplace against the area's 450,000 inhabitants. "People are beaten up on the mere suspicion that they are helping dissidents or when they say they do not know anything about dissidents...