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...Screenwriters with that Academy Award glean in their eye must create films to which the majority of American audiences can relate. And more Americans can relate to Shakespeare's pursuit of Viola de Lesseps rather than perhaps the pursuit of Christopher Marlow, Shakespeare's authentic friend and literary rival. Norman and Stoppard wrote the movie with the intention that audience members would either trudge out of the theater longing for some Romeo to climb through their bedroom window at night, or with patrons holding on a bit tighter to the Romeo they had already won over. Had the plot focused...
...intelligence it can find. The official spy organization is the Ministry of State Security. But it is supplemented by dozens of other government departments, each of which runs some kind of intelligence operation. Beijing also works through Hong Kong front companies or co-production agreements with U.S. firms to glean military-related secrets...
...rivetting. No one dared to flip a program during The Miraculous Mandarin. The tension mounted to such an unbearable degree that at the end of the piece, the audience collectively exhaled and all of Symphony Hall leaned back from the edge of their seats. It would be foolish to glean any message about death and dying from a pantomime. And yet, paradoxically, this is what the opus' power derived from. An audience could not help but be mesmerized when the tawdry relation between a prostitute and her customer explored the interface of life, death and compassion...
Presidents, of course, are concerned about their mark on History. So are many other people, including many intelligent and ambitious ones. But if we can glean any general truths from the Nuzi exhibit, one might be that on a macrocosmic scale, what people will know of us in the future is more or less random. Our reward will not be in the inscription of our names on credit cards in a museum's glass case a thousand years from now, or in copies of out-of-print books we authored or in the condemnations of the Starr Report. We cannot...
...nowadays, it's hard to glean much information at all from these bizarre band names--like Sneaker Pimps, Counting Crows or even Thrifty Spackle--that seem to be so popular among a new sect of music listeners...