Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While his fellow actors blithely with him luck and broken legs. George is still trying to figure out what play he's in. Things are further complicated when the play changes from Private Lives to Hamlet to a kind of Waiting for Godot. Just as George has figured out that Sybil is his wife and Amanda his lover, Horatio marches on stage announcing he has seen the King...
...marriages to Elizabeth Taylor-the Elizabethan years, as he later called them-he was one of the most celebrated men on the planet. Amplified by the resources of modern media, the lovemaking and the battles of Liz and Dick echoed across oceans. Many critics thought him the greatest Hamlet of the era, and he received seven Academy Award nominations for his parts in such films as Becket, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But his greatest role was the one that both he and his audience seemed to enjoy best...
...early commitment." This might make Mondale seem decisive, but it also could dissipate the convention's remaining drama. Mondale is trying to arrange more interviews for this week, though a leading prospective invitee to North Oaks, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, is putting on what Mondale aides view as a Hamlet-like show of indecision about whether or not to come. he V.P. procession has had one highly uncomfortable result for Mondale: he and his advisers badly miscalculated how much feminist pressure he would inspire with his overtures to prospective women candidates. Not only did NOW threaten a floor fight, Goldsmith...
...NORTH AMERICAN ANIMAL ALMANAC by Darryl Stewart Stewart, Tabori &Chang; 351 pages; $14.95 May is the best month for observing the grizzly bear, from a proper distance, of course. March is the best time to study the turkey vulture, especially in the tiny hamlet of Hinckley, Ohio, to which, like the swallows that regularly come back to Capistrano, the scavenging birds return every year. February, however, is not the ideal time to look for groundhogs. The woodchuck does awaken from his winter torpor earlier than most other ground animals but rarely as early as Feb. 2-unless roused from...
Other entrepreneurs thrive on challenges that can daunt larger firms. Few industries have shrunk more in recent years than American shoe manufacturing, which has seen imports walk off with much of its business. Yet the Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come...