Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is only the start. After an idyllic interlude, the trio are rescued by a British merchant vessel and taken back to England. Before he can touch soil, Susan's last great love, Crusoe, dies of woe, sighing for his island. In London, Susan finds her way to a tale spinner significantly surnamed Foe -- Defoe's real name -- and persuades him to tell her story. But Foe keeps emphasizing the wrong themes. Susan rebels and then suffers remorse. "I am growing to understand why you wanted Crusoe to have a musket and be besieged by cannibals," she writes...
...missiles, while Moscow would dismantle 270 SS-20 missiles. The Soviets have 112 SS-4 missiles in Europe, but these are being replaced by more advanced SS-20s. Both sides would then be limited to 100 medium-range warheads, the Soviets on their Asian territory, the Americans on U.S. soil...
...very repressiveness of the Chun government gives radicals a rich soil to thrive in. South Korean students fill a political void that does not exist in some other East Asian countries. Japan, for example, permits dissent and has a vocal opposition that includes the Communist Party, which holds 27 seats in the national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially...
...Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...
...familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist as a caged carnival act. Still, there are magic tricks, bursts of flame, ritual burials in a stage full of soil and stark tableaux echoing, or worthy of, Dali and Magritte. The words fade quickly. The images linger. W.A.H...