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...films attract respected actors as well. The primal gropers in Patrice Chereau's Intimacy, winner of the top prize at Berlin this year, are Mark Rylance, who runs London's Globe Theatre (where last year he played Hamlet), and New Zealand-born film star Kerry Fox. As Jay and Claire, they meet each week in his dingy London flat for an afternoon of brusque passion; its appeal is its anonymity. But Jay has to learn where his mystery lover comes from. His journey will remove the final veil of flesh--the one that separates two desperate souls. Chereau ultimately pushes...
...last half of the 20th century brought a remarkable shift in the center of gravity of English writing. So much of the new, best stuff was coming from what once had been the periphery of Empire: from Africa, India, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia. Naipaul's work was a major part of this process, as was that of an earlier Nobelist, the Australian Patrick White. Naipaul wrote with piercing insight and even tenderness about ignored areas of experience (lower-middle-class Trinidadian life, for instance, in A House for Mr. Biswas, 1961). What was more, when he decided to leave...
Hometown: Timaru, New Zealand...
...ZEALAND A Refuge at Last As the Australian Parliament passed a package of measures designed to stem the flow of asylum seekers, neighboring New Zealand received 140 Afghan refugees. The Afghans, mainly women and children, were among the 433 rescued by the Norwegian freighter Tampa more than a month...
...powerful few, there will be angry and desperate men who feel they have nothing to lose. Bush's nutty plans for a missile-defense system should be scrapped immediately and the billions saved diverted to reducing the root causes of such violent and despicable acts. GARY MOLLER Wellington, New Zealand...