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...res Americana now stands, no one can make a truly informed electoral choice, since our august candidates' utterances have little correspondence with their future actions. The proponents of democracy argue that by voting, citizens exercise control over their future. But who has any control when no one has any idea what a vote for any candidate means...
...weeks after she lost the premiership, Thatcher took comfort in the fact that protege John Major succeeded her, and she hoped to exercise wide influence over post-gulf war policy. Major has largely backed away from Thatcherism, however, and has done nothing more than pay tribute to Thatcher "res-oluteness and staunchness" in committing Britain to the anti- Saddam coalition. Heeding the obvious signal that Major does not need her counsel, Thatcher will almost certainly leave politics. "It's all over. It must be terrible to go out that way," notes a sympathetic former associate...
...Woman assume new personas in the second and more interesting of the two plays, A Theological Position. The work opens in media res, after Man has brought the pregnant Woman to Priest (Richard Claflin). Apparently, Man is questioning the puzzling genesis of their unborn child. He wants help and advice from the Priest--some allusion is made to the possible demonism of Woman, but we do not discover the details until later. Playwright Coover's attitude toward the church is clear as the Priest voices his self-righteous rigidity. He says of the pregnancy, "Even if it should occur...
...that matter, it also never understands how the experiment sprung into Nelson's head in the first place, or how he stumbled upon the specifics in his formula for death. But this is certainly an ambitious and lengthy film, and necessarily starts in media res. And Flatliners more than compensates for its faults. The deft directorial manipulation of largely unsympathetic characters, and the fine, full characterizations by the actors so involves the audience that it cannot maintain critical distance...
...work of the Lighthouse Preservation Society and the Thacher Island Association, and other local groups, will come together so that, in the words of Senate Resolution 306, "these impressive structures, standing at land's end through two centuries, symbolizing safety, security, heroism, duty and faithfulness" will be preserved. S.J. RES...