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...Actor's Revenge tells the tale of an 18th century Kabuki actor, Yukinojo, who specializes in female roles. Yukinojo is played by two people: a tenor (Mallory Walker) who sings the role, and a dancer (Manuel Alum) who mimes the part. Walker's relentless shouting tired the ear quickly, but Alum's performance as a man impersonating a woman was riveting...
...afternoon when the Mediterranean was a deep, shadowy blue, with only a suggestion of surf, and the beaches were crowded. Suddenly, unaccountably, the Christians and Muslims both began to shell the area. The carnage: 20 dead and 270 wounded. How have the 1 million Beirutis been coping with the relentless destruction of their once beautiful city and the periodic slaughter of their people? Reports TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart...
...several days after the election, Giscard toyed with the idea of forming a new centrist "liberal" party aimed at blocking Chirac's relentless drive for power. But Giscard's U.D.F. followers in parliament, anxious to hold their seats, seemed far more interested in making a deal with Chirac than in sharing the ex-President's martyrdom. Said one U.D.F. deputy: "I can understand the President's pain and recriminations. But right now we have to keep our fists in our pockets and try to save the house...
Secondary roads off the interstates are often in much worse shape. In eastern Kentucky, where pockmarked roads suffer a relentless pounding from overloaded coal trucks, drivers bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full...
...sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise. When the Führer's minutes of the affair threaten to surface, counterintelligence launches a relentless search from Hollywood to Hamburg...