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...Shilling clearly intends to make her presence felt as a director. For example, when Claudio and Don Pedro fool the eavesdropping Benedick with a fake conversation, she has the messenger (Bloom) fishing in the background. By snaring the innocent fish with his bait, he parallels the action unfolding in front of him. But what is the point? Does he really add to the scene? Or is the director just tossing in a self-conscious conceit...
...Pedro (Colin Stokes) and his comrade-in-arms, Claudio (Mark Fish), inject a sinister tough into their otherwise straight-forward characters, rather complacently consigning a poor maiden to eternal shame. Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Ian Lithgow), on the other hand, is interpreted as a buffoon. He is a Peter Ustinov-style villain, bumbling and ineffectual. The comic actors take the Shakespearean "rude mechanical" to the limit. Dogberry and Verges (Tom Giordano) revel in the slapstick. So, too, do Borachio and Conrade--at times at the expense of the darker, more thoughtful side of the play...
...highest and, with the help of European Community subsidies, it built $30 billion worth of highways and other public works. No longer did Spaniards have to emigrate north for jobs: their income rose to 79% of the E.C. median. Culturally, Spain became fashionable: the campy fantasies of filmmaker Pedro Almodovar; the sunswept abstractions of painter Miguel Barcelo; the postmodern extravaganzas of architect Ricardo Bofill; the prankish sexiness of fashion designer Sybilla. Madrid promoted itself as the eye of a creative tornado known as la movida, whirling all night long. Novelist Camilo Jose Cela won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...today, he says, "we've lost our confidence. The good times are over." Economic growth has slowed to 2%, and inflation remains at a stubborn 6.9%. Unemployment has swelled to 17.5%, no better than when Gonzalez took office. "There's a lot of cosmetics," says Pedro J. Ramirez, editor of the daily El Mundo. "But fundamentally we have not made a modern economy." Anyone who conducts long-distance business on Spanish telephones or is so naive as to rely on Correos, the government mail service, or so unwitting as to fly Iberia, the fickle state airline, might be tempted...
...come from an island in Japan whereearthquakes are very common," said Elizabeth J.Toomer, who was in her San Pedro, Calif. home whenthe shaking started. "[But this] was stronger thananything I've ever experienced. Blinds wererattling, beds were shaking. It was like havingone of those vibrating beds...