'Great, great shot,' said one, perhaps the same, venerable spectator to Player at the 16th. Around the central plot-proposition, that Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia before the Greeks can sail to Troy, Euripides paints a deeply debunking picture of 'heroes' motivated by shabby expediency and puffed-up pomposity.Crucially, the girl's mother, Clytemnestra, does not escape censure either, emerging as a foolish, selfish women.This is not the case in Mnouchkine's production, where the focus is firmly on the loving, grieving matriarch. Scarcely the sort of thing you would expect from a drama written in 1909, and indeed there is nothing like it in Barker's stage directions. THE PEOPLE of Bosnia have not, of late, been blessed with their fair share of luck. The life of a Western chess professional came to an end with glasnost.'Norwood looks back to the good days of four years ago when, as an undergraduate at Oxford, he could spend a fortnight of his holiday tripping over to France, winning a tournament with ease, and pocketing pounds 2,000 prize money - 'more than my entire year's grant'. Eating out in Australia is relatively inexpensive because of the absence of VAT and 'service charges'.If you settle in Wagga Wagga or Goondiwindi, cultural life will be limited largely to a prime-time choice on commercial television among Neighbours, Home and Away and Sale of the Century, a games show.

A consummate television interviewer on both sides of the Atlantic for nearly 30 years, Frost has proved a greater survivor than most of his subjects, moving back to the BBC this weekend after the demise of TV-am, which he helped to launch. They cross-breed with great gusto.Occasionally something rather good turns up. Five underground concrete bunkers about 40m (yards) long and 10m wide, were stacked to the ceiling with ammunition and assault rifles, mainly from the former Soviet Union. This supernatural ballet is woefully unsuited to being presented without a curtain in a well-lit auditorium, but it was, on the whole, well danced. The infrastructure, such as track and signalling, would be handed over to what the Bill calls a 'network operator'. 'You have to have clear reasons for using it, and make decisions that are based on a musical aesthetic.'For Metheny, arguments about technology are secondary to the basic problems of the guitar as a jazz instrument. Yet their Green Paper entitled 'Costing the Earth', issued in 1991, advocated a tax on energy as a first priority and an end to 'the anomalous zero rate on VAT on fuel'.Alan Beith, the party's Treasury spokesman, leapt up to point out that it was a Green Paper, meaning for consultation, and had not become party policy.

Kansas City play at Houston, winners of 11 games in a row, in a second-round NFL playoff game. He is ready to share - for the price of a video - his Easy Way to Health and Fitness with a panting public. McKenna wants to help the world's stressed, non-orgasmic, insomniac, overweight and underconfident chain-smokers. A further 25 per cent never went on the market but straight to workers, an option sanctioned under rules widely criticised for making too many concessions to the status quo.GAZ alleges a personal vendetta by Mr Nemtsov, who has presidential ambitions and has staked his reputation on being able to impose his own man as boss at the plant. He was found to have a massive blood clot on the brain.(Photograph omitted).