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...briefly, then fade after a limited engagement. Some shows run for ages that shouldn?t: the stodgy ?Blood Brothers? has run for 16 years; and Nunn?s rendition of the Cole Porter musical ?Anything Goes,? which moved successfully from the National to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, looked simultaneously stiff and frantic when I caught it. All right, the good die young. Here are notes on a few plays you can?t see, and I?ll have trouble forgetting...
...idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail." The heroine is his mother?spunky, intelligent and curious about all things Chinese. Dad, a civilian employee of the navy, wants to go home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo...
...uneven we edge warily around them. At the rock's upstream end, where the water races furiously under the boulder, a river guide was once sucked under and drowned. That night the river booms through my dreams. We're through. Early the next day we're off again, stiff but elated. Wet socks, dirt in our cups of tea, even the plastic bags have long ceased to matter. First off is the ABC rapid, named for the raft full of camera equipment lost there by an unlucky TV crew, courtesy of a partly submerged log. No problem...
...only 354 troops there, but the parliamentary mandate that approved the deployment expires this year, and the ruling party may not have the two-thirds majority required to extend their stay. Polls suggest that some 70% of Hungarians are against the idea, and the incumbent party could face a stiff challenge in elections expected next year. Political pressure may also be building in Poland, a staunch ally that contributed 2,500 troops to the occupation. Opposition there to the Iraqi deployment rose from less than 30% after the fall of Baghdad to 75% after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...
...family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail." The heroine is his mother - spunky, intelligent and curious about...