Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge appetite for reliable service gave rise to such pioneers as AT&T, IBM, American Express, McDonald's and Federal Express. But many U.S. companies today are failing to achieve the right balance of high-tech expedience vs. personal attention. "The state of service is pretty bad," admits Kenneth Hamlet, president of the Holiday Inn Hotel Group...
...outsize figures of shameless strutting charisma, for parentage of their platoon and for their new recruit, Chris. Barnes, the staff sergeant, could be Chris' legal father; Elias, the romantic renegade, could be a spiritual father, even after his death. They are like Claudius and the Ghost wrestling for Hamlet's allegiance...
Presenting plays ranging from a three-page-long "Skinhead Hamlet" to a night of performance art, the ART/Monday, which throughout the year sponsors talks and off-beat theater at the Loeb, has moved into the Experimental Theatre for a "Month of Mondays." They'll be presenting five plays and one selection of performances art in repertory, a total of 30 performances during January...
...When the undergraduates aren't around, we run in and grab what we can," said Wes Savick, who studies directing at the Institute. Savick is directing "Stone" a play by Edward Bond that opened this Monday. He is also directing "Skinhead Hamlet" a compressed parody by Richard Curtis that's written about English urban punks. The piece is so brief, in fact, that Savick's major worry right now is "how to fill the evening up, not leave people short...
...Well, if a bunch of undergraduates decide to put on a show and fail to achieve a Hamlet or King Lear of truly tragic proportions, probably not. At least they tried. If the same people decide to produce a script as superficial and mediocre as, say, Fifth of July and charge admission, such a criticism is just...