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...ultimately a medium of language, of narrative, a skilled playwright can find in just such a conversation all the action an audience needs. The result can be poignant and elegiac, like David Storey's Home, or salty and burlesque, like David Mamet's Duck Variations, or full of rage and silences, like many of Beckett's dramas...
...measure, he is an unlikely leader in today's world. Imprisoned since 1962 on a variety of charges, including conspiracy and sabotage, he has taken no active part in fomenting the black rage that in 1985 spread like a brush fire in the veld, leading to the deaths of more than 850 South Africans, almost all of them nonwhite. His words cannot be legally published in the South African press. Only a few intimates even know what he looks like now; he has not been photographed since 1965. Yet from his cell in Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town, Nelson Mandela...
...called 14 Perpendicular, 21 Tilt and 28 Down. Taken individually, the interviews have their flashes of cheer and wit. But in sum they suggest accommodation to life's dreary compromises at an age when one might hope for a lingering anarchic impudence. The 28-ers do not strut or rage or tease; they seem already middleaged, emotionally pinched, too cautious to hope for more. They speak Britain's defeat in every tentative phrase...
...union said it hoped to persuade the company to change its mind. But unemployment in Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent homeland, is high. The South African Chamber of Mines, which recruits workers throughout the region, already has 400,000 job applications on file. NORTHERN IRELAND Protestants Vent Their Rage...
Through three hours of courtroom testimony, she had barely raised her voice above a whisper. Now Ann Marie Murphy, 32, fixed her gaze on the Jordanian defendant, Nezar Hindawi, and unleashed the rage she had nursed since April 17, the day she was detained at London's Heathrow Airport with a 3¼-lb. bomb and a detonator in her luggage. "You bastard you! How could you do that to me?" she shrieked. "I hate you! I hate you!" Hindawi, also 32, appeared unmoved by the outburst. As his trial began last week at London's Old Bailey courthouse, Hindawi faced...