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...generation he was Heathcliff and Hamlet; for another, the wily granddad of movie melodrama. And for the ages this prodigious, protean figure was our century's greatest actor...
Before I left for college my first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...
...dilemma is as thorny as was Hamlet's: Should the U.S. adopt a tougher, more adversarial trade posture toward Japan? From Silicon Valley to Capitol Hill, many Americans long to retaliate against Japan for what they regard, with some justification, as one-sided trading practices. Yet the urge to lash out is tempered by a self-protective need to maintain harmonious economic and political relations with America's most vital Asian ally. The quandary has ; left the Bush Administration walking a fine line between heated cries to battle by congressional trade hawks and equally urgent calls for restraint by dedicated...
Fortunately, the answer provided by last week's Agassiz theater production is a resounding yes. Granted, the events depicted in Gerome Ragni and James Rado's play are ancient history to us, but the same is true of Antigone and Hamlet (two plays to which Hair owes a debt). Galt MacDermot's score (including favorites like "Aquarius") was as fresh and lively as ever...
...Sylvester Stallone will follow in the footsteps of Olivier and Burton and become the Hamlet of the 1990s...