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...best argument for the increased use of antiterrorist force is its deterrent effect. Secretary of State George Shultz outlined the rationale most bluntly in October 1984 when he declared, "We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond." In July, Abraham Sofaer, the State Department's legal adviser, told a meeting of the American Bar Association in London, "The groups that are responsible for attacking us in Lebanon, El Salvador and elsewhere have openly announced their intention to keep on trying to kill Americans. To the extent that they are state...
...something new from the man who brought you Hamlet...
Taylor himself does not claim to have discovered a masterpiece. "It's not Hamlet," he says. "It's a kind of virtuoso piece, a kind of early Mozart piece." Early Salieri would be more like it, but Taylor, who wears an earring rather like the one in Shakespeare's portrait, is learning quickly that all the scholarly world's a stage and all the scholars merely players. "I've always regarded this hoo-ha as slightly absurd," he says, "and once it is over, I shall go back to being as ordinary as dirt." --By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Steven...
Kevin Kline's Hamlet, mordantly funny and a persuasive whirlpool of contradictions, establishes him atop his generation of actors...
...shoe entrepreneur in The Big Chill. Eager for acceptance as a classical performer, he has performed Richard III and Henry V for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. Last week Kline returned to Papp's Public Theater off Broadway and took on the ultimate challenge: Hamlet...