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...British Prime Minister Edward Heath the following week in Bermuda; > West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who will come to Key Biscayne, Fla., in late December; > Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato, who will visit San Clemente in January; >Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, almost certainly, at some point not yet determined...
...talks with Pompidou, Heath and Brandt will be far-ranging. They will include the forthcoming European security conference and the proposed mutual reduction of forces between the Warsaw Pact nations and the NATO countries. Since Secretary of the Treasury John Connally is accompanying Nixon and Henry Kissinger, the international economic impasse will also be discussed -though not likely resolved (see THE ECONOMY). The summit conference with Sato will give the Prime Minister a badly needed boost at home, where his reputation has been seriously damaged by the sudden U.S. policy reversals on both China and international trade...
...throughout. Brook is impatient with peripheral events and dispenses with them as often as possible. He uses explanatory titles to speed up the action and cuts scenes mercilessly. It is toward the great events that his imagination tends--Lear raging at Cordelia or mad in the storm on the heath or overwhelmed with regret before his death--and on these scenes Brook lavishes his attention lovingly. To the Gloucester subplot he is for the most part cursory. He reserves his ingenuity for Lear alone. And as Lear, Paul Scofield carries the film...
...wintry old age and bleakness. The film gives off an almost palpable and desolating coldness, as if one were witnessing snow on the craters of the moon. But the defect of that virtue surfaces at the fulcrum of the play, which is the vast raging storm on the heath. The lashing rain seems incongruous in such an icy climate, and no one's thoughts should be remotely physical at that moment. Shakespeare has carried us to the butt end of existence, as close to an annihilating image of nothingness as drama has ever achieved. One ought, at that moment...
...violence keeps spreading, there are repeated rumors, officially denied in London, that Prime Minister Edward Heath will soon impose direct rule from London on the embattled province. This would hardly change the realities in Belfast. "We're already so restricted," one Ulster official complained, "that we have almost to phone London for permission to flush the toilets." But direct rule would amount to a confession that efforts at political reform had not worked as effectively as had violence...