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"Today if the Republican majority supports the chairman, our actions will be added to the growing list of travesties that this committee has inflicted on the oversight and congressional process.
no wait, sorry--which are crude travesties?
But while Stoppard has slummed a bit for the big screen, he has done some of his most serious and demanding work for the small one: Professional Foul , a 1977 BBC commission, addressed the moral dilemmas faced by a group of English academics at a philosophical conference in Prague; and Squaring the Circle: Poland 1980-81 , broadcast in 1984, brought the playful self-consciousness of Travesties to the deadly serious events surrounding the Lenin Shipyard strike and the subsequent government crackdown.
Second, they're a refuge, said Tom Stoppard, in Travesties --Zurich, World War I, home to Lenin, Joyce, and Tzara: "Oh, Switzerland!
Participants are invited to submit other actual news items that sound taps for that turbulent decade, if you'll accept the idea that his pairing of "hip" and "respectable brands" travesties the spirit of that era, which might be easier to accept if you thought that he was on acid when he said it, or if you were right now.