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...topped a BBC poll of all-time "Great Britons" two weeks ago. A few days earlier a German scholar grabbed headlines by accusing him of deliberately bombing civilians during World War II. Book-stores teem with his biographies, including new entries by historians John Ramsden, John Lukacs and John Keegan, plus a novel based on his fleeting acquaintance with the notorious spy Guy Burgess. More than four decades after his death, Winston Churchill's shadow falls heavily over Britain...
...childhood companion, Jack tanner (played with dynamic vigor by Don Reilly), a young man and a decided taste for overbearing oratory. Much to his consternation, Jack is appointed one of Ann's guardians after her father's death--the other one being a confirmed old conservative, Roderick Ramsden (Alvin Epstein...
Usually omitted from most staged versions of the play, but included in this production, is the central scene in which Jack dreams that he is in Hell, recast as the famous Don Juan, with Ann as Dona Ana, Ramsden as the stone statue of Ana's father, and Mendoza as the Devil himself. But this Hell is the refuge of people bored by Heaven, such as the Statue; the Devil is an amiable aesthete with a nihilistic view of man's destiny; and Don Juan himself is a man bored by the mindless hedonism of Hell and consumed with...
...stage is extended to a T-shape, drawing the audience closer to the play's action. The production has a lot of visual flair, evidenced in the spare yet cleverly suggestive sets, from the lofty bookcase and long cluttered table of Ramsden's study to the fiery red sun and mountains of Spain (complete with appropriately "Spanish" guitar music) to an eerily empty darkness that gives way to the red glow of Hell. The last scene, set in a garden in Granada, features a fountain filled with round, orange objects that tease the eye until Jack Willis picks...
...Spanish Canary Islands that killed 582, and the 1974 crash of a Turkish DC-10 near Paris that left 345 dead. More alarmingly, however, the sudden and inexplicable plunge of the Air India craft had the earmarks of terrorism. "It is most likely a bomb," said Mike Ramsden, editor in chief of the aviation magazine Flight International. "A bomb is the most likely reason for a catastrophe, so sudden and complete, to an aircraft with a very fine safety record." Added a high-ranking U.S. Air Force intelligence officer: "It looks like a terrorist act, but it is too early...