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STRATFORD, Conn.--Among Shakespeare's plays, Richard III ranks second only to Hamlet in the total number of lines, in the size of the title role, and in its appeal to actors and producers over the centuries. The bloody monster who murdered his way to the throne (a notoriously inaccurate historical portrait) has over the years engaged the talents of several women, boys in their early teens, and even little Ellen Bateman, who began acting the role professionally when she was four...
Says he: "This is definitely the longest role ever written. For 2% hours each evening I talk nonstop, with no time to swallow, burp or clear my throat. Not even Hamlet or Lear talks that long...
...black students. In 1962, as state field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., Jordan led a boycott that forced stores in Atlanta to hire blacks. Two years later he became director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project. Traveling almost constantly, from big city ghetto to impoverished hamlet, he urged blacks to set aside their fears of white retaliation and register to vote. By 1968 the South had nearly 2 million new black voters, the number of black elected officials in the region had jumped almost eightfold, to 564, and Vernon Jordan was a nationally known civil rights leader...
...Passion zahlt's" (The Passion will pay for it), people like to say in Oberammergau. And, indeed, the famous Oberammergau Passion Play, first performed in the picture-postcard Bavarian hamlet back in 1634, has kept the local economy humming for much of the 20th century. It is a six-hour production, put on for a four-month run every ten years with a cast of 800. A quarter of the town (pop. 4,800) takes part, working as stagehands, orchestra members, singing away in the huge chorus, or milling about as Roman soldiers or members of Jewish crowds. Many...
Tucked away in a Hereford hamlet on England's border with Wales is the supersecret headquarters of the 22nd regiment of the Special Air Service (S.A.S.)-demonstrably the world's toughest antiterrorist commando unit...