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The Skinhead Hamlet is precisely what it sounds like: a telling of the classic tale transported into the idiom of British skinhead punk rockers of the late 1970s. The play opens with Hamlet (Dean Norris) spray painting the misspelled setting--"DENMAK"--on the wall. This Hamlet spends his time fighting...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Bard-acious Comedy | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

The last time Joan Collins saw Paris was during the winter of '86 in the CBS mini-series Sins, which TV Guide last week dubbed the worst in its category last season. Undaunted, she is returning to France in the four-hour World War II melodrama Monte Carlo for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 28, 1986 | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Lugar, buttoned-down and a bit bland, is a capable organization man who may be the second choice of Senate Republicans. If Dole might be too assertive as majority leader, the low-key Lugar could be too deferential. Elected to the Senate in 1976, he is a relative newcomer. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Wrangle in the Senate | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

WHAT MAKES PEOPLE fire on children and completely unarmed men without provocation? Why don't we hear about Black cops accidentally shooting children who "make a quick movement" or reach into their pockets "suspiciously"? A passage from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man may be apropos:

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Violence in the Streets | 1/11/1983 | See Source »

Flood II also seeps through Squid & Spider (Prentice-Hall; $10.95). Guy Billout imagines the passenger list for a new ark: 800,000 insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short Shelf of Tall Tales | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

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