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...SAGA of unionizing student shuttle bus drivers during the past three weeks could be mistaken for a case study from Lipsey and Steiner, the Ec 10 textbook...
...shuttle saga represented a fundamental conflict between the rich and the poor. It should come as no surprise that the rich won easily. They successfully employed the deceiving concept of the public interest--namely, that some must necessaily sacrifice in order to ensure the welfare of everyone. But who is this everyone, and why are the rich never asked to contribute to the public interest...
Absinthe is the catalyst. It turns Verlaine (David Markay) violent and makes Rimbaud (Nicky Silver) into a satanic enfant terrible. Transforming his mentor into his slave, Rimbaud pries Verlaine loose from his wife and son. The rest of their tempestuous saga is fairly accurately chronicled in the production at off-Broadway's La Mama Theater. The play is flawed, but it is amazing that British Playwright Hampton (The Philanthropist) wrote it when he was only 18. He was obviously drawn to Rimbaud as a fin-de-sicle spiv, and Silver plays him that way. Markay's Verlaine...
...icemen know is that, thanks to third-period goals from Phil Falcone, Greg Britz and Dave Connors and a dynamite second half from Whiston, the first quarter of their four-part playoff saga has ended successfully--with a 5-3 victory over Princeton at Baker Rink last night...
This is the third installment of a space saga that Author Doris Lessing calls Canopus in Argos: Archives. That running title is matched by the pace of Lessing's production: three good-sized novels in the past 16 months. Shikasta (1979) tells of a primitive, beautiful planet called Rohanda, which is being jointly colonized by the two vast galactic empires of Canopus and Sirius. A misalignment of cosmic forces throws Rohanda awry; its developing inhabitants stop listening to their wise tutors and begin behaving suspiciously like members of the human race. The Canopean overseers sadly change the place...