Washington is known as an early-to-bed town, but there are diversions.
Although Desert Hot Springs itself is sleepy, really no more than a main drag with some restaurants and two supermarkets, there are diversions within a short car ride.
Rangers remain the loudest noise in Scottish football owing to their boardroom saga, but with Celtic to face Internazionale in the Europa League next Thursday and Aberdeen and Hearts resurgent, there are diversions.
Though there are diversions in the tumbledown guitars of Sucker Punched and the shuffle of Delancey Essex, the defining sound is the four-to-the-floor drone, as on excellent opener Bodies; later on, Skulking is even better.
There are diversions into relative modernity – such as the systems-like ending to Love Can Be Cruel, underlaid with fizzing feedback – but the presiding mood is a stoned, summery somnambulance.
Away from London, there are diversions on Great Western and CrossCountry services around Bristol due to a major signalling upgrade and the demolition and replacement of the Easton Road bridge.
On the one hand, this is flattering to the audience, implicitly putting us on the same level as the smartest guy in the room; on the other hand, when everyone in a play remains so faithfully true to type, a certain ennui sets in, unless there are diversions like richly detailed, individualized acting.
His stories are written in classic New Yorker fashion: There's a central narrative that holds the reader, but then there are diversions into areas or topics that a reader might not read on their own.
There is diversion as well.
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