Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sylvester Stallone will follow in the footsteps of Olivier and Burton and become the Hamlet of the 1990s...
Really a tragicomedy, Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's last comedy before Othello, King Lear and Hamlet. Angelo, deputy to the Duke, sentences Claudio to death for fornication. Claudio's sister, Isabella, goes to Angelo to beg for mercy; he agrees to free her brother only at the exchange of her virginity. In this drama of masquerades, complications and sexual reparte, a twelve-member cast stars at Winthrop House through next weekend...
...direction. "It could have been macabre," he acknowledges, "but it wasn't. It was fun. For one thing, David and I could see Lawrence in a different light. We were more detached, and the way to capture those moments seemed clearer. It's the old story: actors play Hamlet in their late 20s and then realize in their mid-50s that they now know...
...Marines did not surrender. In March, Westmoreland was replaced as U.S. commander in South Viet Nam by General Creighton Abrams. President Johnson announced he would not run for re-election. In the same month, whispers spread of a horrifying massacre of civilians carried out by U.S. troops at a hamlet called My Lai. In May, North Vietnamese representatives landed in Paris to start talks -- seemingly endless talks -- with U.S. delegate Averell Harriman. In June, the Marines were told to abandon Khe Sanh. The U.S. high command had decided it was no longer a vital outpost...
...while the victim was in police custody rather than in prison, and many took place within two or three hours of confinement. Among the alleged suicides, details of the deaths are often hauntingly similar. Eddie Murray, 21, hanged himself in 1981 while in custody in the New South Wales hamlet of Wee Waa. Loyed Boney, 28, was found hanged in his cell at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987. Bernard McGrath used a strip of toweling in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, to strangle himself. McGrath's relatively minor offense: violating probation after conviction for driving without a license. A few cases...