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They are an eclectic lot, but they have one thing in common: all 225 are registered with the Federal Election Commission as candidates in the 1984 presidential campaign. Some of the more ambitious traveled to the State University of New York campus at Stony Brook to attend the Alternative Presidential Convention...
...This is the fourth Much Ado to have been staged by the R.S.C. in 15 years; one would think that by now Director Terry Hands could do it in his dreams. And so he has. Borrowing moods and motifs from distinguished R.S.C. predecessors-the rigorous gaiety of a Peter Brook circus, the majesty of a Trevor Nunn midnight Mass-Hands has turned Shakespeare's most popular comedy into a dream play with music and dance. Each line of dialogue (not just "Speak low, if you speak love") sounds like a song cue from the loveliest libretto ever written. Each...
...explanation for the obsessive, socially destructive love Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) feels for the courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti), it is to be found in these oppressive surroundings, where the very air breathes of neurasthenic surrender and the will is strangled in brocade. If the screenplay by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne omits or hastily vulgarizes Proust's nuanced sensitivity to social gesture and psychological tremor, the film nevertheless suggests a legitimate response to this most daunting of literary material. Well and bravely acted, Swann in Love is a mesmerizing, even haunting experiment...
...epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby (1967). The past year alone has seen radical film versions by Peter Brook, Carlos Saura and Jean-Luc Godard...
...years businessmen and women have yearned to keep in touch while airborne. In 1980 the FCC awarded an experimental developmental license to Oak Brook, Ill.-based Airfone, Inc., partially owned by Western Union, to test their system on long-distance, wide-bodied flights. By the end of the year, a number of carriers, including United and Delta, are planning to offer in-flight phoning. More than business will be done at 30,000 ft. Says American's public relations manager, Joe Stroup: "We now see the passenger calling Aunt Bessie to tell her what time he'll arrive...