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Against All Enemies will get its juice from the spectacle of stratospheric double-dealing; there's more backstabbing than in Hamlet. World Trade Center promises to be a hymn to the courage and perseverance of Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Officer Will Jimeno (Michael Pena). Jimeno was trapped in an elevator shaft for 15 hours, McLoughlin interred in rubble a few feet below Jimeno for 23 hours...
...section about Hamlet’s stutter-like habits of repetition, punning, and word substitution, Shell makes the (perhaps unavoidable) play on Hamlet being a “little ham” akin to Porky...
...Yudui was considered the lucky brother. Like more than 100 million Chinese peasants, he left his rural roots behind for a job in the big city. His younger sibling stayed in the family's hometown, the hamlet of Dongzhou in southern China's Guangdong province. In early December, when Lin returned for a visit, the brothers joined a protest against a nearby power-station project. Locals claim the plant is being built on village rice paddies sold by municipal officials to the power company without proper compensation to the villagers. Moreover, the project involved filling in most of a lake...
...anyone. Tobin said he remembers that at Evans’ 90th birthday party, a friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet laments the loss of a great king and father. “Hamlet’s line, ‘We shall not look upon his like again,’ I think has never been truer,” Bruster said. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett...
...audible through laughter. Entering and exiting the “stage” was a challenge in itself, occurring whenever the actors could juggle their props and scripts long enough to read the cue, or when one of the organizers barked an order from offstage: “Exit Hamlet!” Actors sheathed swords in their belt-loops and the elastics of their pants, pulling them out to punctuate fight scenes. Hamlet killed Polonius through a tapestry held by the Lowell house tutors. As the climax approached, actors deadpanned. Gertrude, the queen, drank a glass of colorful paper...