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Uruguayans pride themselves on having the purest democracy in the Western Hemisphere. They got it 14 years ago, when the nation abolished its one-man presidency and set up a Swiss-style nine-man National Council, in which four members of the majority party take annual turns as the country's nominal President. It turned out to be too much of a good thing, for the government was paralyzed much of the time and the men in power could not resist voting an ever greater welfare state for its 2,600,000 people...
...Royal Way. There, his hero Claude takes it all with existential calm: "Thanks to the fallen stone, he was suddenly in harmony with the forest and the temple. He pictured the three stones as they had been, one above the other; the two dancing girls were some of the purest work he had ever seen. Well, the next thing was to load them onto the carts...
...performance. The pukka sahib accents of the cast conjure up stiff-lipped Britons muddling through, rather than Russians sucked under in emotional quicksands. Chekhov's night music of the soul, so beautifully attuned in Director William Ball's 1958 off-Broadway revival, is jangled here. At its purest, it is an ineffable resonance of laughter and tears, making the whole world kin. It is unthinkable that anyone who loves Chekhov would miss the Gielgud production, and equally unthinkable not to regret what is missing...
Twain could be cruelly funny; in one tale a man, caught in a textile machine, gets woven into 39 yards of carpeting. Together with wry homilies ("Temperate temperance is best") Holbrook includes a ghost story, a fragment from Huckleberry Finn, and passages of the purest poetry, such as a description of dawn rising on the Mississippi, a fond remembrance of Twain's youth as a riverboat pilot. It is not youth but age that is the touchstone of Holbrook's marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts...
BILLY APPLE, 30, a New Zealander (real name: Barrie Bates) who works in Manhattan, believes "neon is the purest, hippest color in the world; Day-glo phosphorescent paint looks 1929-ish next to it." In Auckland, he wanted to be an engineer, now carefully varies the diameter of his neon tubes to produce different hues. Apple turned to art and working in a paint factory, he contracted dermatitis and a lasting dislike for turpentine. Even before he arrived at London's Royal College of Art, he says, he found his solution in electric colors. While experimenting with them, Apple...