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...ACTOR CAN EXPECT TO CONQUER THE title role in HAMLET -- only to provide fresh insight into a few scenes. Tom Hulce, whose varied work has been overshadowed by his gigglesome Mozart in the film Amadeus, specializes in ironic, self-deprecating intelligence that ought to meet that modest goal. But in a hokey production all too typical of Washington's Shakespeare Theater, Hulce fails to make the words sound sincere and obscures the political and revenge narratives with muddling about real-or-feigned madness. Francesca Buller comes as close as anyone can to bringing off Ophelia's breakdown, and Franchelle Stewart...
COMBINING CONSERVATIVE VALUES SUCH AS RESPONsibility and self-help with liberal ones like tolerance and generosity -- which is precisely the covenant that Clinton proposes -- could conquer the corrosive tactic of making wedge issues out of racial fears and sexual prejudices. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Clinton decried the us-vs.-them politics of division. "This is America," he said. "There is no 'them'; there is only us." He then maneuvered to ensure that, unlike in 1988, in fact unlike in any election since 1960, race was not an issue. Partly he achieved this by shying away from...
Sometimes it is not until nations understand one another's motivations that war breaks out. So it was in 1939, when Adolf Hitler finally convinced Britain and France that he meant to conquer Europe. So it was in 1990, when Saddam Hussein established beyond doubt that he wanted more than just a swatch of desert on the Kuwaiti border...
...then Elvis died. A great career move, yes, but the death knell for the polity. Lacking an icon to unify the nation, successful candidates used symbols to divide and conquer. Reagan had his welfare queens, Bush his Willie Horton. That shit wouldn't fly when Elvis walked the earth...
...would get the keys to the kingdom, the drama was heightened when the famous clock on the Times Building suddenly went dark. Now it is ticking again, as Sulzberger gallops out of the building, talking about the new plant, covering Brooklyn as thoroughly as Beirut, the outer suburbs to conquer, Pulitzers to win. Without a sigh -- he is not a sigher -- he turns down 43rd Street to catch the bus, and says, "I'm only 40. I've got time...