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HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet wanted to be - the self-assured ruler of his fortunes, and never the tormented prey of a tragic destiny. It is a portrayal alight with intelligence, but rarely aflame with feeling...
...greatest lieder-a 24-part cycle about a rejected lover who sets out on a winter journey of despair, tantalized by everything he sees and dreams. These were Schubert's own favorites among his songs and were written just a year before his death at 31. Hermann Prey, a younger German baritone of growing renown, has also recorded Die Winterreise (Vox; 2 LPs). His voice is richer, but his interpretation is less subtle: while Fischer-Dieskau suffers a hundred varieties of hurts, Prey suffuses the whole in a single sorrow...
...millions of years, bats and porpoises have been using ultrasonic echoes to locate their prey. Now physicians and surgeons are learning to use the same technique to hunt for different targets. With pulses of "sound" far too high for human hearing, they are locating tumors that must be cut out, livers that must be treated for cirrhosis, babies' heads that are too big to pass through the mother's pelvic arch, even fast-beating heart-valve leaflets that need to be repaired...
...BLOOD KNOT. Two half brothers-joined in kinship, disjunctively opposite in color-prey on each other's weaknesses, but stay together in a communion of spirit that is full of laughter, envy, good intent and deep fears...
...BLOOD KNOT. Two half brothers-joined in kinship, disjunctively opposite in color-prey on each other's weaknesses, but stay together in a communion of spirit that is full of laughter, envy, good intent and deep fears...