Word: ariel
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Molly Bishop, director of this season's production of The Tempest has cast a woman in the traditionally male role of Ariel, finding tat the political tensions in the play are interestingly transformed into sexual tensions. Most of my shows are feminist oriented," Bishop explains. "I feel an obligation to find good roles for women...
...formally approved use of the drug, and Roussel will shortly apply to market it in Britain. The company has refused to export it to any country unless several conditions are met, including the legality of abortion and its acceptance by public, political and medical opinion. According to Ariel Mouttet, head of international marketing for RU 486 at Roussel, the sticking point in the U.S. is the political climate. Says she: "We don't want to enter into a social debate...
...little more than mattresses and sleeping bags, and toilet facilities are haphazard. The squatters' resentment is increasing along with their number. Last week near Tel Aviv, 70 of the homeless barricaded themselves on a roof, hurled gasoline bombs at the street and threatened mass suicide until Minister of Housing Ariel Sharon promised to listen to their demands and pay a visit to their tent city...
Living a pleasant life, however, does not erase ambivalence about the past. The Moseses, for example, are concerned that Germans gloss over guilt for the Hitler years and the Holocaust by focusing on their own suffering during World War II. The feeling transcends the generations. Says Ariel Karmeli, 25, born in Frankfurt to Jewish parents hailing from Syria and Iran: "My culture is German. Frankfurt is my city. Germany is my country. But here I must constantly justify myself to others. When I get on a bus and see an old man, I ask myself, 'What...
...price and would settle eventually for something less -- but higher than they'd get otherwise." But after years of no progress toward settling the Palestinian question, a more disturbing realization has set in. Says Hertzberg: "Now we are facing the fact that these Likud fellows -- Begin and Shamir and ((Ariel)) Sharon and their likes -- are not reasonable fellows who want the maximum deal, but nationalist ideologues who will pay great, incalculable prices to maintain ideological purity and a continuing war with the Palestinians...