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...Holding candles flickering in a chilly wind, the veterans marched silently in pairs. The toy M-16s and "torture sticks" of daylight search and destroy missions had been left at the campsite. Led by five vets in wheelchairs, the march proceeded behind an upside-down American flag connoting distress...
Julio Carney Herrera, a wealthy lawyer with mildly left-wing views, was machine-gunned to death while driving home in broad daylight. The bodies of liberal Businessman Humberto González Juarez, a friend and a secretary were found beside a highway. Two young radio newscasters disappeared. So did Juan Luis Molina Loza, 27, a philosophy student and amateur actor who had played a convincing Che Guevara in a student carnival last year...
...tragic mood that he says pervades most stage productions. "One reason this is known among actors as a bad-luck play," he maintains, "is that it's done in the dark, and people are always falling off parapets and breaking their ribs." Polanski is bringing it into the daylight. His witches are not spirits, but real, scruffy women. His actors, wearing no makeup, speak the Shakespearean verse conversationally. Authenticity is Polanski's byword; he uses it to mean 'not so much chronological accuracy as "a look that can make people believe all this actually happened...
Gradually, the monologues−interrupted on occasion with plaintive questions from Howard as to whether I was recording the conversation, which I was not, or taking notes, which I was, frantically−shifted from daylight to dark, and from premidnight to early morning hours. One night, I vowed to accept no calls, and my wife agreed that she would handle Howard. We fell into bed exhausted and waited for the calls we knew would come. The first came...
Sitting out there on the dock at 5:30 p. m. yesterday, I realized that it was dark. I remembered what it had been like the first time we had to cox in the dark; if we had been piling up shells in the daylight, how the hell were we to avoid it in the darkness? But there were no serious mishaps, maybe because we'd already had our accident-one freshmen crew had broadsided another. Last year's accident featured a freshman cox who decided to combat the offdock wind by heading in perpendicular to the dock and taking...