Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitution pledges fewer ideological restrictions on the arts and literature, which most Chinese will clearly welcome. When copies of a Chinese translation of Hamlet appeared in a shop on Peking's Wang Fu Ching Street recently, they attracted a queue of buyers that stretched 100 yds. Official journals have railed against "stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths...
...became a global celebrity on a scale known by only a handful of men. He called upon heads of state, and it is they who were thrilled by the meeting. As one of the world's most recognizable faces, he drew appreciative, knowing crowds from African village to Asian hamlet to European capital. If he walked a single block, he trailed a mob in his wake. Now an aged, dethroned champion, he can no longer light the ring with his skills. But the path he burned across his time remains...
...theater, so he has devoted himself to making money for his children and grandchildren (those paychecks from the National Theatre were piddling sums). Olivier's past accomplishments in drama are legendary. Many people say his true greatness was in the theater, but Olivier has rendered many memorable film performances: Hamlet, Henry, Richard, Othello, Astrov, Strindberg's Captain, and to a lesser, though often equally delightful extent, Heathcliff, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Graham Weir in Term of Trial and Andrew Wyke in Sleuth. Perhaps, many hope, he will return to the stage someday, if not to undertake a more mature...
Ordinarily, such speculation is about as profitable as wondering what Hamlet studied at Wittenberg. But given its woolgathering premise, Heathcliff is a remarkably accomplished and engrossing novel. It is also a first-rate act of literary impersonation. Caine introduces convincing versions of Lockwood and Nelly Dean and, at some risk, a long autobiographical letter written by Heathcliff himself. Bereft because he knows Catherine will never marry him, the ferocious young man flees the Heights with a vague plan to wreak vengeance on the world. No sooner does he reach London than he joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury...
...Ever seen the movie 'American Graffitti?' That's where I lived," says Steve Irion. The senior basketball co-captain grew up in Harlowtown, Montana, a hamlet of 1200 people, which earned him the nickname "Monty" when he came to Cambridge. Every Saturday, young Irion rose at 6 a.m. and went down to the asphalt courts built by the local Kiwanis Club to play roundball until sunset. When he wasn't playing basketball, Irion and his cronies "just used to hang out on Betty's corner." It was on the corner of the street and Betty owned the joint, he explains...