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...Beavis and Butthead" isn't going to usher civilization back to a new Dark Age, and it isn't going to corrupt the young. The young are corrupted already, and they know...
...elections will not usher in a ready-formed New South Africa. Even as most South Africans delight in the prospect of free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
...disarmingly than in the 21st work of the wistful comedist A.R. Gurney, whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters) also centered on the disruptive consequences of love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these two fully transcend sketch comedy to offer poignant glimpses of self-destructive lives. Predictably, however, the central figure is a Wasp, and an uptight one at that...
...would make his name immortal. The depressing fact is that he was right. If he had not burned the temple, he would be utterly forgotten, along with 99.99% of the rest of the human population of Asia Minor in the 4th century B.C. Does the bombing of the Uffizi usher in a new convulsion of Herostratic politics? Passionately, one hopes not; impotently, one fears...
...terror lasted from 1975 to 1979, have clawed their way back to a modicum of power. As the country's first democratic balloting in three decades begins this week, the party threatening to wreck the election is none other than the Khmer Rouge. Hope that the vote might usher in peace, along with a constitution and new government, has given way to fear that the balloting -- already tainted by violence, intimidation and corruption -- could turn into a bloody shambles. Even if the voting succeeds, the new leaders will still have to find a way to bring the Khmer Rouge...