On Streisand's previous tour, in 2012, a new huskiness crept into her voice, dimming some of the glisten in her tone, while shedding gradations of her once unending wind power.
The natural, universal business of feeding and eating, hunting and being hunted, sexual contact and sexual conquest: is it a dark and unending imposition of power or just the way things are, something to be accepted?
The logic is simple: if the elections fail to abate the unending wrangling for power at the center, sufficient international forces will not be able, as in 2009, to prop up remnants of the government in Kabul through the interval.
She said: "My children will be so happy!" That was us in 2008, struggling for everything - no water in our taps, constant power cuts, unending fuel and bank queues, and most of all, no food in the shops, not even bread.
These two visibly have the life expectancy of dragonflies; their sense of power and of unending gang fun is a delusion, and to see them duping themselves is as harrowing as the spectacle of most other hoaxes.
The noise, decay and corruption of Lagos airport were unending, along with the insects, power cuts and the higgledy-piggledy way of living that was far too intimate for one brought up in Britain's home counties.Ms Saro-Wiwa would far rather have stayed in the family house in leafy Surrey, with its golf clubs and Leylandii trees, or holed up with her smart boarding-school friends from Roedean.
"The Mime Troupe," he continued, "whose mimes, for complicated reasons, sing and talk, describes its work as "political satire," and says its characters are "members of social classes: conscious or unconscious participants in the unending wars over land and power and wealth which drive human history".
Instead, like everything the president does, it is fueled by his sense of personal grievance and vindictiveness, by his unending desire to use the power of the presidency not to advance the nation's interests but to assuage his own fragile ego.
