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Hamel's direction is skillful. Aside from occasionally awkward and distracting blocking, his staging is fluid. He trusts the script enough to allow actors to remain still on stage, letting the power of Cocteau's ideas hold our interest. Hamel should also receive the credit for an inspired set design, which beautifully highlights what Cocteau called the "false classicism" of this play set in the 19th century...
Politically, the Catholic Church is truly catholic. The existence of Catholics like Archbishop Bernard Law does not make me a conservative any more than the existence of Catholic "liberation theology" makes me a revolutionary. One can be a Catholic and remain a free thinker...
...died in 1959, naturally features his old hits. And Oh, Kay! straddles the line between being a revival of the 1926 Gershwin success and an imaginative reworking of its raw material. Strikingly, these stories of boy meets girl all take place long ago or far away. Apparently our times remain too cynical for headlong romance close to home...
...attracting high- velocity rail lines and new highways that will speed travelers from Britain into Europe's expanding transport network. By contrast, residents of Britain's prosperous rural Kent have opposed construction and the industrialization that will follow. British road and rail systems -- which include no high-speed equipment -- remain inadequate. Thatcher's government spends only a fraction of France's commitment to improving infrastructure. Many businessmen fear that Britain's failure to take full advantage of the Chunnel link will not make it easier for them to compete in the new Europe...
...theory, then, the tocsins of war might make war unnecessary, if the U.S. and its allies remain patient enough for the blockade and pressure to work. That, in turn, will require unified support from the American people for the means, as well as the ends, of Bush's policy. The President's inability to clarify how he plans to get Saddam out of Kuwait last week did nothing to halt the confusion. Perhaps he can better explain his objectives to the Americans with the most at stake in the crisis: the troops he will be meeting on a Thanksgiving...