... locai prostitute who is crudely abused by all the journalists, and a new reporter who is shocked by all this but not above faking reports on battles he hasn't seen, and is too weak, physically and mentally, to face the harsh facts of Third World life. ...

... wife, husband and daughter. Despite the laughter, life is about to change, truth is about to out, and desires and fantasies exposed. The wife loves her husband but does not want him sexually. He loves her but has become fat, scruffy and comfortably conventional ...

... York stock exchange and contemporary dress, he has allowed the strands of the plot full play without any domination, thereby exposing, not resolving the conflicts of style, character and motive. There is in the result a lack of affection between the sub dued ...

... pin-pricking, she is exhausted in stead of dynamic. Her nagging non- relationship with her husband is skilfully explored and exposed. Frustrated emotionally and intel lectually the Suffragette Movement got her nothing except deeper dis content al her wasted ...

... the follies of those who try to find the philosopher's stone, a secret formula or a mystic symbol have never been better exposed than by Ben Jonson in his play The Alchemist. The fact that he used some of the most telling dialogue and colourful language ...

... mainly interested in sell ing indulgences, until he fakes stigmata and sets himself up as a miracle worker. Only them does he.find enough follow ers to become head fif a kind of hippie commune, but is exposed as a fraud by Hilda, the woman who loves him, and ...

... alone that elude her. For this story of a kindly philanthropist, who shelters a Polish pianist in his home and in doing so exposes hint to the attentions of an unruly young family, is schoolgirl stuff, full of awkward enthusiasms and little else. The pianist ...