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...know Hamlet by seeing it once--there's so much there," he said. "That's part of what's behind this...you're not overcome and consumed by the plot of a production...
...this subtle comparison, Doerr undermines the romanticism of the remote foreign hamlet. Loomis, the only involuntary member of the community, alone succeeds in forging a bright future in this brave new world. The others mentally reconstruct Amapolas to match the painting on the book's cover. The local grandee cautions his guest: "Consider this, senora. You are transforming Amapolas into something more beautiful than...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...
...genuinely enjoy writing these pieces because they're obscenely easy. If you set 10 monkeys down in front of this Dell 210 Workstation, they could crank out columns like this with enough time before deadline to actually read Hamlet. That's because the University of Pennsylvania provides enough intellectual ammunition to supply an entire industry of nasty, lazy, hungover editorialists like me. And that's a pretty tall order, given how many people are nasty, lazy, hungover or some combination of the three. Luckily, Penn never lets us folks down. Here's their latest offering...
...hamlet of Schaller, Iowa (pop. 850), a firm called Schaller Telemarketing has helped ease the loss of two of the town's three popcorn plants. Lucy Huldeen, 69, pushes bank cards and auto-club memberships from Schaller's offices, but she is no fast-talking operator. Says she: "I understand that the last thing people want to do sometimes is talk to someone who is selling something, and I try to sympathize...