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...promised to free. All he wanted in return for helping the Republican Party was its gratitude and a promise to continue ostracizing Castro's Cuba. In 1973, his world seemed no more real than that of the Japanese soldier who belatedly emerged from the Phillipine jungle to obey his Emperor's surrender orders. The rest of the United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the Communist island within ninety miles of our territory. Neglect has proved to be a simpler policy than military invasion...
...ruling is comparable to a decree by a Roman emperor that participants in orgies must be fully clothed at all times. Pool builders insist that at least 50% of their prospective customers will not go near the water if it is unheated. Though there are already 225,000 pools in Southern California and 12,000 more are added each year, this seemingly irreversible growth rate may now be stopped, so to speak, cold. Swimming-pool heaters are a use of energy the state cannot afford, argues the commission. Not so, says the industry, which contends that the natural gas used...
...richness and emotional power. A commanding actor, he made his stage debut in 1922, impressing Playwright Eugene O'Neill and beginning a friendship that led to starring roles in a string of O'Neill plays (All God's Chillun Got Wings, The Hairy Ape and The Emperor Jones). Robeson's most spectacular stage triumph after Show Boat (1928), in which he sang Ol' Man River, was Othello, which in 1930 drew 20 curtain calls in London; in 1943 it ran for 296 performances in New York, a Broadway record for a Shakespeare play. His screen...
Wind and Whirlwind. Much of the evening resembles a lecture interspersed with picture slides. On cue, a cavalcade of people troop across the stage; samurai and sailors, fishermen and merchants, ladies of pleasure and constant wives, a wax puppet of an emperor and a Perry (Haruki Fujimoto) who stomps out a "lion dance" with his long white mane flailing the air. Pacific Overtures swallows them all like...
...satisfy their wishes." For more than a century, Hans Christian Andersen has satisfied the wishes of the Western world's children. One hundred years after his death he remains the unsurpassed master of the fairy tale. Who has not smiled ruefully at the imperial victim of The Emperor's New Clothes, or identified with The Princess on the Pea? What youth remains ignorant of Andersen's articulate birds and magic elves? Yet, as Cambridge Professor Elias Bredsdorff brilliantly demonstrates, these creatures were the offhand productions of a vast and thwarted literary ambition...