And now in "The Hothouse", written in 1958 but not staged until 1980, Mr Pinter plays the coarsest character of them all, Roote, the corrupt head of an indeterminate institution where the inmates and the staff are exploited to the point of torture and death, a theme he was to develop in a sparer and more political way in his later "Mountain Language".

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The Haiti exhibition takes "Death and Fertility" as its theme, suggesting the country's ability to regenerate itself after tragedy.

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In the final scene, where Scottie faces reality and determines at the risk of spiritual death to "stop being haunted, " the love theme and the illusions it represents are ripped into ugly scraps.

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Picking up on that theme, you were unable to cold it to death, but what about trying heat?

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With its snappy theme songs, soap-operatic continuities (Laci Peterson, runaway brides, the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith), and a cast of characters ranging from photogenic newsreaders to egomaniacal pundits, contemporary television journalism rivals, in its shallowness and sensationalism, the finest works of the late Aaron Spelling.

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