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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Tim Foley has transformed this space into a surprisingly apt theatre. The intimacy of the room emphasizes the claustrophobic nature of the Danish court. While the limitations of the theatre quickly become obvious (the ghost is a spotlight accompanied by clashing orchestral chords, for instance), they are minimal...

Author: By Emily J. Wood, | Title: Hamlet Bound in The Winthrop JCR Nutshell | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

Holsteins are hardworking Danish cows who make it possible for well-disciplined families to earn a living from ground not good enough to grow corn or soybeans. Dairying is not a sentimental line of work, however, and a cow's productivity chart hangs by the stall where she can see it: she knows that when her output declines she's dead meat; retraining will not be an option. Dogs and cats, when hunting became too hard, retrained as house pets, but a large hoofy animal that chews its own vomit will never be welcome in the American home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN AUTUMN WE ALL GET OLDER AGAIN | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...STRONG SUBSURface themes of Smilla's Sense of Snow, the fine 1993 thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish novelist then new to America, was a slyly expressed contempt for what the author saw as his country's bourgeois self-satisfaction. This much relished contempt and cheerfully malign slyness are the driving forces of Hoeg's first novel, The History of Danish Dreams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 356 pages; $24), which has now been issued in the U.S. That said, there's not much similarity between the two novels. Smilla has a powerful narrative flow; Dreams is a lumpish absurdity that fuddles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PETER HOEG: OLD TRUNK | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

This extreme awkwardness of construction makes Dreams, which belabors the smugness and provincialism of Danish society from feudal times to the present, seem far longer than it is. There are passages, not murky but mightily centrifugal, in which the reader's eyes slide off the page. And in something like equal number, or a bit more, there are set pieces, two or three or several dozen pages long, that are among the funniest satirical sketches seen in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PETER HOEG: OLD TRUNK | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

Caught between the two sides in the battles last week were U.N. peacekeepers. On Friday a Danish soldier was killed and two Poles were wounded when Croatian units began shelling several U.N. observation posts. By the end of the week two more peacekeepers, both Czech, had been killed, and more than 90 U.N. soldiers had been detained by the Croats. Although there was no immediate Allied military response to the attacks, French General Bernard Janvier, head of U.N. troops in the former Yugoslavia, pledged air support to U.N. peacekeepers who were coming under fire. A pair of U.S. Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GUNS OF AUGUST | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

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