Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advance his influence notably or to author any major legislation, he has had time to husband seniority. Only 52, he can well afford to wait his turn to chair the Agriculture Committee, where he is the fourth-ranking Democrat. By week's end, while still publicly playing the Hamlet role-to run or not to run-he was understood to have decided that Georgians after all desire him to stay on in the Senate...
...royal family of the English theater. Her father is Sir Michael Redgrave; Lady Redgrave is Actress Rachel Kempson. Her sister and brother are players, as was her grandfather and his father before him. On the night she was born, her career was chosen by Laurence Olivier, who was playing Hamlet to her father's Laertes. Prophesied Olivier in a curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a lovely new actress has been born. Laertes has a daughter...
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When the war is shown, it takes place in deserted surroundings, as if everyone cleared out when this camera crew came around. The strategic hamlet is empty except for a lone cow; the soldiers marching through a plantation seem to be going nowhere; the American presence in Vietnam comprises a dozen Marines and a machine-gun. (The Japanese are probably not entirely at fault for the inadequate coverage, because of American and South Vietnamese security measures.) Even the atrocity scenes, some of which seem staged, do not add up to a statement about the horror of war. The editing...
...about us. And if it was not about us -the city's total population less 200 or so 20th Century-Fox playmates-it was not about London. Cathy McGowan is not "London's favorite dolly," but London's most unloved moron. David Warner's Hamlet is popular not because some jet-set clique has deemed it "In," but because Peter Hall has concentrated on the aspects of the play most meaningful for the 20th century (as distinct from 20th Century-Fox). Those who converse in the "flip jargon" have IQs of 80 or under...