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...says, "They identified me as being diplomatic. They saw it as either CIA or FBI." Carlson was beaten severely over a period of 4 1/2 hours. "They started hitting me on the back of the shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until he managed, with the help of Purser Derickson, to convince the terrorists that he was not "diplomatic" but Army Reserve, with "a wife and a little baby girl." At that point, his tormentor underwent a dramatic change of mood. Declares Carlson: "He walked over to me, looked down...
Americans like cartoons of transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...
...label of wunderkind can be a fearsome burden for any mere mortal. When Peter Sellars, 27, was named director of the new American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy who had made his name with audacious updatings of Shakespeare, transplanted Handel's opera Orlando to Cape Canaveral and spiced up Maxim Gorky's 1904 play Summerfolk with songs by George Gershwin. Yet his first offering at Kennedy Center, a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I directed by Timothy...
...love itself"), but like a good champion in training suppresson his boyish fantasies out of respect for Navarre. After some is needed for more important things, like breaking the evil spell that turns Navarre into a wolf each night and Isabeau into a falcon each day. Seemingly the only mortal lead to retain his human form for more than two hours at a stretch, Phillippe becomes a go-between for the star-crossed lovers, embellishing their tender messages with fanciful tidbits from his own overripe romantic imagination. The lovers' tragic separation gradually softens Phillippe's cynical and egocentric approach...
...relatively moderate views of many West Bank Palestinians with the overheated and unrealistic rhetoric of some Palestine Liberation Organization officials, who in conversation "rarely mentioned the plight of their brothers in the West Bank and Gaza." Adds Carter: "Their statements . . . made it clear why the Israelis consider them mortal enemies and why the differences between Israel and the P.L.O. spokesmen seem irreconcilable...