Word: hamleted
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...American apotheosis. Times Square exemplified a certain idea of the city carried to its frenetic extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore's Hamlet, the Marx Brothers) and the spontaneous razzmatazz of the rialto. There was a civic side as well: Times Square became the natural New York place for jubilation en masse, every New Year's Eve and every time America...
...Jewish settlement of Kedumim is only about a mile away from the Arab hamlet of Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank. Until now the residents of both rural villages lived and let live. Last week the Palestinian turmoil that has engulfed Israel and the occupied territories came even to this remote spot. As 15 or so Palestinian youths manned a rock barricade across the road leading to Kafr Qaddum, a familiar blue Volkswagen van braked to a halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told...
...ritual impression that l) Donaldson is a loud, obnoxious reporter; and 2) the President is a nice guy with a crinkling smile who would be happy to oblige even the cretins of the press, if it weren't for that darned helicopter. The tableau is as inevitable as Hamlet contemplating Yorick's skull in the final...
...speaking of several conflicting genres. Devotees of locked-room puzzle stories may disdain the hard-boiled private-eye saga. The tea-sipping pleasures of naughtiness in a village can seem overrefined in comparison with the beer, blood and brawling in big-city police procedurals. Like the roving players in Hamlet, the authors of mystery fiction are prepared to entertain in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical and in moods from the slyly literary to the sociologically earnest...
...settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable...