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Well, even before Opening Ceremonies, I was having fun. This is a big gambling nation. It's got less than a percent of the world's population but more than a fifth of the poker machines, these "pokies" you see everywhere. The Melbourne Cup horse race day is an undeclared...
It's hard for an American to understand just how much sports means to these people. I mean, we're pretty sports-crazed, but nothing like this. "A land were sport is sacred," Henry Lawson called it. (They like to call Lawson "Australia's Mark Twain," but he's no...
What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare--like Washington coloring books--there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's The Buck Stops Here is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 Presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St...
What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare - like Washington coloring books - there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's "The Buck Stops Here" is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St...
In fact, it was a challenge just to find an English show in London for the first summer season of the millennium. England's former colonists, the Americans and the Irish, seem to be filling all the West End theaters. Two separate Tennessee Williams plays, Orpheus Descending and Baby Doll...