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...Ostpolitik and the inner scheming of Guillaume and the other top staffers, who are loyal but scarcely more likable. The you-break-my-neck-I?ll-break-yours pace stirs suspicions that the play is more bustling than profound. I prefer Alan Bennett?s two one-acters, ?An Englishman Abroad? (about Brit superspy Guy Burgess, who fled to Moscow after passing secrets to the Reds) and ?A Question of Attribution? (about Burgess? comrade in duplicity, Anthony Blunt, an art historian who daringly stayed in Britain and became caretaker of ?the Queen?s pictures?) But ?Democracy? certainly provides an intelligently entertaining...
...Ballard is about 800 km east of Perth and about the same distance again to the South Australian border). And paring back to the essence of things was the whole aim of Antony Gormley's $A500,000 Inside Australia sculpture project. For the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, the Englishman digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found at the lake. What we get is a town reduced to its bare...
...facilities. Meanwhile on a billboard in Perth, a Kalgoorlie promotion features one of the sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even more crucial than the lure of tourist dollars is the lifting of a town's sagging spirits. And it's taken an eccentric Englishman to show black and white Australia coexisting peacefully on a salt plain. "When you're totally starkers, you're basically all the same," says Finlayson. "Instead of it being Them and Us, it's We." It could be yet another mirage on Lake Ballard, tantalizingly out of reach...
...Indeed, some of the wine's most passionate defenders have come from Britain. In 1831, a young Englishman, Joseph James Forrester, came to Porto, learned Portuguese, mapped the Douro region, wrote treatises on grape growing and exhorted the wine growers to stop adulterating their wines with sugar, elderberry and brandy. That legacy lives on in the large, dark, cool cave of Graham's, part of the Symington group and typical of the lodges open to tourists. Visitors learn every step of the wine-making process while taking in the strong smell of aging wine and grand views...
...imponderable, how they drive too fast and have those jaunty bosoms. You imagine Mayle making his checklist of the bits of Provencal color to be sprinkled around the story. Old men playing boules in the village square. Check. Fragrant disks of goat cheese wrapped in chestnut leaves. Check. Funny Englishman mangling the French tongue. Check. You have to admire his tireless attention to food and drink, to cassoulets "humming with the promise of cholesterol." After all, this is the man who spent a good part of Encore Provence searching for the perfect corkscrew. But while he's caressing every grape...