Word: bernard
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...early 60s, Salter (Gambon), and three of his sons (all played by Daniel Craig). We are in the near future - say, the middle of this century. Thirty-some years before, Salter's wife had died and he was left to raise his four-year-old son Bernard, who had begun life as an angel ("You were the most beautiful baby everyone said"). But the father was neglectful, sometimes brutal to the boy; Bernard grew wild, sick. In anger and cunning, Salter took advantage of the new technology and had his son cloned: cloned as a new baby, the precious Bernard...
...learn this in the first two of the play's five scenes: conversations between Salter and the decent, cloned Bernard (B2), then Salter and his still-troubled birth son (B1). The "action" takes place off stage, but it's shocking nonetheless. Pin this: B1 visits B2 and threatens him; B2 flees to a distant island, where B1 finds and murders him; B1 confronts his father, who now fears he will track down all the Bernards and become a serial killer of his own clones - mass murder as mass suicide. But B1's only further victim is himself. In the last...
Kevin Cullen, one of the investigative reporters for the Boston Globe who helped break the story of sexual abuse in the Boston Archdiocese, said at an Adams House lunch yesterday that Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 played “musical chairs with predatory priests...
Clos du Val, a Napa winery set up by Frenchman Bernard Portet in 1972 and best known for its Cabernet Sauvignon, hired a new executive team last year to reposition its brand further upmarket. It will soon sell its top Cabernet at $62 a bottle, up from $55. Several of its other wines will also have price increases. The wine labels will be redesigned, but the wine inside will remain the same. "By not raising our prices in the 1990s, we fell behind in positioning and recognition," says David Campbell...
...Bernard Kouchner, a former SRSG and founder of Médecins Sans Frontières, said that the U.N. must ultimately deal with the threat posed by Saddam Hussein—but the time is not right...