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...ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices imaginable from directors afraid of seeming naive--Cameron-Webb manages to achieve total straightforwardness. A panel of the Capitol slides up, revealing a blue-scrim sky, and the silhouetted monarch simply walks across it, stops, speaks, and continues on his way. The audience...
Although the overall results of the contra campaign are difficult to determine, it is having a dire effect in some areas. Rancho Grande, a hamlet of wooden and tin-roofed dwellings in the coffee-growing region of Matagalpa, 35 miles from the Honduran border, was struck by the rebels last week. Two members of the local militia force, numbering about 25, were killed, along with a French microbiologist, Pierre Grosjean, 32, who was visiting the area to study leishmaniasis, an ulcerating skin disease. After the Rancho Grande assault, Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, whose brother Daniel is coordinator...
...being almost a tool of the trade if one's students are to build on what they learn, even to the point of rejecting it at the onset of independent thinking. Good teachers yearn to be obliterated. Good teachers of literature have little choice in the matter. The Hamlet they pry open for the 19-year-old will not be the Hamlet that student reads at age 50. The play will have changed because the reader's experience will have recast it-the noble, tormented boy of one's youth reappearing in middle age as something...
...DIMLY LIT corner, a courtier clutches a skull and caresses its sockets. Alas, poor Yorick? No--this time the hero is Vindice (vengeance) and skull is that of his love, Gloriana, poisoned by the wicked Duke. Cyril Tourner's The Revenger's Tragedy, while reminiscent of Hamlet, is of a distinct genre: it is not so much a tragedy as a horror play in which vengeance, severing the ties of love and kinship, sweeps its victims toward their own destruction...
Vargas was referring to some 150 anti-Sandinista invaders who had swept down on the hamlet garrison five days earlier to launch a twelve-hour firefight. Before the attack was repelled, the Sandinistas claimed, the counterrevolutionaries killed five Nicaraguan defenders and wounded five others, at a cost of 58 of their own dead. According to the Nicaraguans, the incident was the latest in a series of 500 such attacks in the past year; as many as 440 civilians and military men have been killed. The Bismuna battle, they protested, was part of a continuing effort by the Reagan Administration...